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R, SANJEEV, SAI PRASAD S V, and MRIDUAL A BILLORE. "Comnining abillity studies for yield and its attributes in Triticum durum." Madras Agricultural Journal 92, March (2005): 7–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.29321/maj.10.a00003.
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Combining ability effects were estimated in line x tester crossing programme for fifteen characters involving ten lines and four testers in Triticum durum. It revealed preponderance of non-additive gene action for grain yield plant along with other character like grain number / spike, 1000 grain weight, protein content, sedimentation value and B-carotene, which suggests scope for improvement of these characters through heterosis breeding and transgressive segregants for evolving high yielding superior genotypes. HI 8591, HI 8596 and HD 4692 among lines and Bij Red and HG 110 among testers were evaluated as good general combiners. Among hybrids, HD 4694 x Bij Red, HI 8381 x MPO 215, HI 8591 x MPO 215, HI 8591 xHG 110, HI 8596x MPO 215 and HI 8653 x Bij Red were the most promising ones as they had high SCA effect and per se performance for grain yield plant and its component characters. An attempt of multiple crosses with the use of all the above good general combiners would lead to obtain transgressive segregants for grain yield in advanced generations.
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Marini, Miguel Â., and Shannon J. Hackett. "A Multifaceted Approach to the Characterization of an Intergeneric Hybrid Manakin (Pipridae) from Brazil." Auk 119, no. 4 (October 1, 2002): 1114–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/auk/119.4.1114.
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Abstract A new intergeneric hybrid manakin is characterized using morphological characters and mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Many morphological traits suggest the bird is intermediate between Ilicura militaris and Chiroxiphia caudata. Sequences of the maternally inherited mitochondrial ND2 gene demonstrate the female parent to be Chiroxiphia caudata, and the nuclear beta-fibrinogen intron 5 sequences can not eliminate Chiroxiphia and Ilicura as parents. Therefore, DNA sequence data lead to the conclusion that Ilicura is the male parent of this unusual bird. This study is important because it highlights the significance of using multiple character systems in diagnosing unusual bird specimens.
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Vasilyeva, L. N. "The hierarchy and combinatorial space of characters in evolutionary systematics." Species and speciation. Analysis of new views and trends 313, Supplement 1 (July 25, 2009): 235–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2009.supl.1.235.
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In this paper, the Linnaean hierarchy is discussed as the taxonomic model for the evolutionary differentiation of the earth’s biota. This model allows us to understand why a number of ideas and arguments in the evolutionary theory are unfortunate. Among these is the idea of a linear ladder of nature («scala natura»). The arguments about species constancy versus species variability, natural species versus «artificial» higher taxa, a single type of animals versus multiple types, as well as about the connection versus disconnection of microevolution and macroevolution are meaningless. Two kinds of phylogeny are considered. The first reflects the appearance of new characters in the course of evolution, and their sequence provides the nesting hierarchy of groups. The second reflects the appearance of new character states and provides a basis for the diversity of taxa at each hierarchical level. The taxonomic hierarchy is an embodiment of the first kind of phylogeny and does not require the tracing of ancestors and descendants along the lines of character development. Character ranking and the improvement of a tentative taxonomic hierarchy with the help of a posteriori weighting of differences are discussed. The method of character weighting leads to the construction of prognostic combinatorial arrangements that can predict the existence of organisms with certain character state combinations at each hierarchical level. The drawbacks of cladistic methodology, especially the «synapomorphy principle», the «dichotomy principle», and the monophyly «definition» through the internal composition of groups, are noted. It is pointed out that these principles only lead to the creation of heterogeneous groups and wrong character ranking.
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Wu, Weishen, Yi-Ting Yu, Muhammad Ashar, Triyono Indrasiwi Kuncoroaji, and Vertic Eridani Budi Darmawan. "Applying Augmented Reality to Chinese Radicals Learning: A Remedial Teaching Experiment in an Elementary School." International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) 16, no. 05 (March 8, 2022): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v16i05.28983.
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In the regions of Chinese as the first language, children with backward Chinese characters ability are more likely to give up reading the subject content of long texts, which affects their learning in the long term. This study applies augmented reality (AR) to develop a remedial teaching model for Chinese radical recognition and assesses its effectiveness on underachieved students at an elementary school. Based on several Chinese characters that were easy for children to confuse radicals, an AR app for Android was developed and installed in tablet computers. The remedial teaching model involves students to use AR app to scan radical cards and trigger animations introducing the evolution of radicals. Students can practice Chinese character writing on the tablet computer's screen. With the multiple stimulus of AR, the teacher lead students collaboratively complete the worksheets. To assess students' learning outcomes, a quasi-experimental approach was administrated to 8 second grade students who had backward Chinese literacy, in which qualitative and quantitative data were collected. Results showed this remedial teaching model improved the disadvantaged students’ recognition accuracy on Chinese characters and flips their motivation toward Chinese characters learning. During the remedial teaching program, use of AR was effective to get students more attentions and impressions on Chinese radicals. Finally, Implications for Chinese characters teaching practices are discussed
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Woodsmall, ZoraAnn, and Sara Hare. "Gender Through the Lens of Children’s Films." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 9, no. 9 (September 10, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.99.13026.
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This content analysis study sheds light on the gender inequality in popular children’s animated films. The dataset uses the North American theater grosses to rank the most popular 150 animated children’s films from 1990-2020. We found multiple patterns of gender inequality related to speaking roles, lead characters, physical portrayals, social roles, interpersonal relationships, and even the creators of the films. Male characters had three times as many speaking roles as female characters and had the lead role in 80% of the films. Correspondingly, 80% of the film creators (writers, directors, and producers) were male. Films that passed the Bechdel test had twice as many female writers as those that failed the test. The inequality and gender stereotyping one sees in the real world is reflected in this study of children’s films. Animated films are a popular media outlet for children, and this study highlights the impact that these skewed representations can have on children.
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Rahmi, Awliya. "JOKE STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN SITUATIONAL COMEDY “HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER”." JURNAL ARBITRER 4, no. 1 (August 8, 2017): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/ar.4.1.38-51.2017.
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The research discusse joke strategies in American situational comedy How I Met You Mother (HIMYM). The purpose of this research is to identify; (1) the joke strategies in situational comedy HIMYM (2) The pragmatic meaning of jokes that are expressed by the characters in HIMYM AND (3) Pragmatic prank functions that are expressed by the characters in HIMYM. This research is categorized as descriptive linguistic research. Observation method applied in data collection, while the method of distribution and matching applied in analyzing data. The results of this research data analysis is presented using informal and formal methods. From the results of data analysis found 14 strategy joke uttered by characters in a situational comedy American HIMYM, namely: ambiguity, grammar, syllabics, idiomatics, questionable English, antonymics, style, negativism, lexicography, spelling, punctuation, Rhyming English, numerical English And part of speech. The dominant strategy used is ambiguity because there are many words in English that mean more than one and are likely to lead the listener to multiple interpretations. The jokes uttered by the characters in situational comedy HIMYM have assertive, expressive and directive meanings. Moreover, the joke also serves to show the power, solidarity and psychological defense of the speaker.
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Marvin, William M. Marvin. "The Function of "Rules" in Die Meistersinger von Nüürnberg." Journal of Musicology 20, no. 3 (2003): 414–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.2003.20.3.414.
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This study offers a reading of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nüürnberg in relation to compositional rules. By separating the latter into categories of rhetorical and tonal rules, one may determine first if either set of rules is followed adequately by the various characters in the opera, and also whether the rules themselves are sufficient for the composition of master songs. The rhetorical rules are abstracted from the libretto, while tonal rules are the principles of harmony and counterpoint as understood within Heinrich Schenker's theory of tonality. The essay focuses specifically on Walther's songs "An stillen Herd," "Fanget An!," and the multiple verses and versions of the Morning Dream/Prize Song. Close analyses of these songs lead to a better understanding of what Wagner may have intended to teach his characters and his audience about compositional rules.
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Shepherd, Kelly A., Brendan J. Lepschi, Eden A. Johnson, Andrew G. Gardner, Emily B. Sessa, and Rachel S. Jabaily. "The concluding chapter: recircumscription of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) to include four allied genera with an updated infrageneric classification." PhytoKeys 152 (July 7, 2020): 27–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.152.49604.
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Close scrutiny of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) and allied genera in the ‘Core Goodeniaceae’ over recent years has clarified our understanding of this captivating group. While expanded sampling, sequencing of multiple regions, and a genome skimming reinforced backbone clearly supported Goodenias.l. as monophyletic and distinct from Scaevola and Coopernookia, there appears to be no synapomorphic characters that uniquely characterise this morphologically diverse clade. Within Goodenias.l., there is strong support from nuclear, chloroplast and mitochondrial data for three major clades (Goodenia Clades A, B and C) and various subclades, which lead to earlier suggestions for the possible recognition of these as distinct genera. Through ongoing work, it has become evident that this is impractical, as conflict remains within the most recently diverged Clade C, likely due to recent radiation and incomplete lineage sorting. In light of this, it is proposed that a combination of morphological characters is used to circumscribe an expanded Goodenia that now includes Velleia, Verreauxia, Selliera and Pentaptilon, and an updated infrageneric classification is proposed to accommodate monophyletic subclades. A total of twenty-five new combinations, three reinstatements, and seven new names are published herein including Goodenia subg. Monochila sect. Monochila subsect. Infracta K.A.Sheph. subsect. nov. Also, a type is designated for Goodenia subg. Porphyranthus sect. Ebracteolatae (K.Krause) K.A.Sheph. comb. et stat. nov., and lectotypes or secondstep lectotypes are designated for a further three names.
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Stejskal, Ladislav, and Jana Stávková. "Consumer decision making simulation." Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 57, no. 3 (2009): 147–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun200957030147.
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Aim of the paper is to delimitate a partial procedure in the process of modelling and simulation of decision – making results took by individual market subjects. Article’s fundamental is an elemental example of agent system (and derivatively multiagent system) utilization by means of computer technology, which represents so – called computer malingering or computer simulation method. Next to classical word argumentations and mathematically– statistical methods this approach represents a relatively new tool applicable in social sciences (principle of autonomous agent was described in the year 1986).Application is effected by the help of freely accessible software tool. Model’s dynamics consists in random selections of agents pair where probability tells whether they will interact or not. Interaction in this case means copying of so – called cultural characteristics.Introduced construction’s output is verification of predicament which says that taking – over postures, behaviour standards, opinions etc. in population though leads to diffusion of definite cultural pattern, nevertheless doesn’t lead to populations’ homogenization.In conclusion the deterministic character of introduced application is being specified. Also the direction of next progress at work with it this construction is being foreshadowed. Authors are aware of multiple enlargement necessity of characteristics variety and values that the characters may take. This goes hand in hand with mounting of whole process to the context with next methods dealing wiht motives forming consumer's decisions.
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Mehmood, Meenam, Muhammad Zubair Khan, and Umar Rehman. "ANALYZING ANURADHA ROY’S THE EARTHSPINNER: A STUDY OF ETHNO-CULTURAL CONFLICT." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 05, no. 02 (June 30, 2023): 862–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v5i02.1198.
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The present study discussed the theme of conflict in Anuradha Roy’s The Earthspinner. The novel exhibits multiple themes but the most powerful theme is ethno-cultural conflict which is depicted through various characters and their relation to each other. The study aimed at exploring the notion of ethno-cultural conflict, its causes and impact in the selected novel. Ethno- has been analyzed with the assistance of theory of conflict proposed by Max Weber. This qualitative study implied Max Weber theory of conflict. The study concludes that diverse ethno-cultural community becomes victim of conflict due to non-tolerance among people and lead to sectarian violence in the selected novel. Keywords: The Earthspinner, Anuradha Roy, Ethno-Cultural Conflict
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Lande, Russell, and Mark Kirkpatrick. "Selection response in traits with maternal inheritance." Genetical Research 55, no. 3 (June 1990): 189–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016672300025520.
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SummaryMaternal inheritance is the non-Mendelian transmission of traits, from mothers to their offspring. Despite its presence in virtually all organisms, acting through a variety of mechanisms, the evolutionary consequences of maternal inheritance are not well understood. Here we review and extend a model of the inheritance and evolution of multiple quantitative characters with complex pathways of maternal effects. Extensions of the earlier model include common family environmental effects not associated with maternal phenotype, sexual dimorphism, and paternal effects (non-Mendelian influence of the father on offspring traits). We find that, in contrast to simple Mendelian inheritance, maternal inheritance produces qualitatively different evolutionary dynamics for two reasons: (1) the response to selection on a set of characters depends not only on their additive genetic variances and covariances, but also on maternal characters that influence them, and (2) time lags in the response to selection create a form of evolutionary momentum. These results have important implications for evolution in natural populations and practical applications in the economic improvement of domesticated species. We derive selection indices that maximize either the economic improvement in a single generation of artificial selection or the asymptotic rate of improvement in long-term selection programmes, based on individual merit or a combination of individual and family merit. Numerical examples show that accounting for maternal inheritance can lead to considerable increases in the efficiency of artificial selection.
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Войтенко, Л. І., Т. Л. Караваєва, and Л. Д. Швелідзе. "STRATEGY OF THE NEW DRAMA IN LESYA UKRAINKA’S LITERARYAND- CRITICAL ARTICLES." Nova fìlologìâ, no. 89 (May 18, 2023): 59–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.26661/2414-1135-2023-89-8.
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The article examines the features of a new drama promoted by Lesya Ukrainka in her literary-and-critical articles, and further in her artistic work. In the new drama, Lesya Ukrainka focuses on the nature of the dramatic work, specifically, the text as a link connecting the addresser and the addressee. She sees H. Hauptman’s dramaturgy as an example of such text creation, namely, motives and types of characters in his plays. The word becomes the lead character in such texts and turns into a communicative strategy. The word becomes a structurally and figuratively robust means of developing the play’s plot and composition. Lesya Ukrainka associates new drama’s purpose not with modernism or with the programs of “art-for-art’s-sake” and aestheticism, but with the social drama development. The author believes that the concept of a new drama determines the nature of structural and compositional transformations, the drama’s figurative originality. Lesya Ukrainka considers the dramaturgy by H. Ibsen, H. Hauptman, and S. Przybyshevsky, whose works she analyses in her literary-and-critical articles, to be examples of the new drama. The factors providing for the emergence of the new drama in Ukrainian literature include the drama lyrisation as a communicative strategy, which is a manifestation of the play’s “literaturisation”. Lyrisation as the dramatic text’s feature contributes to the action subjectivisation, leads to a chronotope displacement, enables the combination of events happening in different times within one dramatic text, the polysemy of expression through a metaphor or symbol. The philosophy of the author’s strategy of transforming verbal subject of poetic existence correlates with the ability of a statement to create new multiple meanings and interpretations of the text that convey the emotionality of the author’s words. Drama lyrisation drives the creation of conventional images, while the character appears in the text not in one guise, but in several. The author distances themselves from the character, which enables the subject’s uncertainty and potential multiplicity. Dramatic text’s lyrisation becomes an incentive for the text’s generic and genre transformations, contributes to the creation of conventional images that establish explicit communication between the addresser and the addressee. The author as the text’s addresser is presented in the characters’ statements, which provides a plurality of interpretations and meanings of the dramatic text, allows for playing with words, that manifests “literaturisation”. “Literaturisation” as a communicative strategy integrates the texts of Ukrainian playwrights into the context of the world literary and theatrical tradition, expands their themes, genre diversity, and figurative system.
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Maggio, Teresa, Alessandro Allegra, Mar Bosch-Belmar, Tiziana Cillari, Angela Cuttitta, Manuela Falautano, Giacomo Milisenda, et al. "Molecular identity of the non-indigenous Cassiopea sp. from Palermo Harbour (central Mediterranean Sea)." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 99, no. 8 (November 11, 2019): 1765–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315419000924.
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AbstractThe upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea is a benthic scyphozoan, considered a non-indigenous invasive species in the Mediterranean, forming large blooms in eutrophic areas. Taxonomy of the genus Cassiopea is extremely difficult because morphological/meristic characters used are variable within the same species, overlapping among different species, and cryptic species have been identified by molecular markers; nine Cassiopea species are recognized on the basis of molecular study. Mediterranean records of Cassiopea have been ascribed to andromeda species on the basis of a hypothesized invasion pathway from the Suez Canal. In the current study, an analysis of the main morphological characters of the sampled Cassiopea jellyfish from Palermo (Tyrrhenian Sea) was carried out and subsequently, molecular analyses were performed by using COI barcode in order to identify the species. Molecular data were compared with published information in GenBank. Morphological characters were highly variable, but molecular analyses confirmed that Mediterranean Cassiopea specimens belong to andromeda species. Moreover, high values of sequence divergence were found between Mediterranean Cassiopea and the other C. andromeda from the Red Sea, Hawaii and Florida. These results lead to a discussion of possible explanations linked to life history features of the species. Two different explanations are proposed; the first is that Mediterranean C. andromeda, finding a suitable ecological niche good for colonization and proliferation, could have been isolated in Palermo Harbour. The second considers the possibility of multiple introduction events by human transport as demonstrated for other non-indigenous jellyfish; in this case Cassiopea genetic differences increased in the invaded area.
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Adeniji, OT. "Genetic variation and heritability for foliage yield and yield component traits in edible Amaranthus cruentus [L.] Genotypes." Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Research 43, no. 3 (September 25, 2018): 513–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjar.v43i3.38397.
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The field experiment with nine Amaranthus cruentus genotype was conducted, to estimate the magnitude of genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance for leaf yield and contributing traits of amaranth genotypes during 2013 and 2017 cropping seasons. Field experiment was carried out in a randomized complete block design with three replications between 2013 and 2014 cropping season in Jalingo Taraba state. Data were collected on branches/plant, leaves/plant, leaf length, lead width, leaf fresh weight, leaf dry weight, marketable foliage yield, non- marketable foliage yield and plant height. Analysis of variance revealed highly significant mean squares (P< 0.01) among the genotypes tested for all the traits investigated. Thus indicating presence of high variability for foliage yield and yield traits. The PCV value was greater than GCV for all traits; however, GCV values were near to PCV values for the traits like leaf width, plant height branches/plant indicating high contribution of genotypic effect for phenotypic expression of such characters. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance per percent of mean reflect the presence of additive gene action in the expression of these traits, and improving of these traits could be done through simple selection.For multiple traits, AM 45 outperformed other genotypes for leaves/plant, fresh weight of leaves, plant height, and branches/plant.While AM 42 performed best for foliage yield (t/ha) and branches/plant.Bangladesh J. Agril. Res. 43(3): 513-524, September 2018
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Hofer, Matthias, and Werner Wirth. "It’s Right to Be Sad." Journal of Media Psychology 24, no. 2 (January 2012): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000061.
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Although sad films elicit states of sadness and cause onlookers to mourn beloved characters, these media offerings also lead to enjoyment. This paradoxical situation challenges both theoretical approaches and empirical studies in entertainment research. Based on an appraisal-theoretical framework, the present study examined the role of multiple appraisals of recipients’ sadness. It is argued that these so-called meta-appraisals are able to transform one’s sadness into a positive meta-emotion (i.e., enjoyment); this process is called valence transformation. Results of an experimental study (N = 149) showed that in cases of a sad film ending, participants experienced higher levels of sadness than they did in cases of a happy ending. Furthermore, given a sad ending, meta-appraisal processes were activated that mediated the relationship between sadness and enjoyment. If the film had a happy ending, however, there were no indirect effects. Results are discussed in the light of theoretical considerations.
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P, SUMATHI, and KALAIMANI S. "Combining ability studies for yield and its attributes in sesame." Madras Agricultural Journal 87, December (2000): 645–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.29321/maj.10.a00530.
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Combining ability effects were estimated in line x tester crossing programme for ten characters involving 7 lines and 5 testers in sesame (Seasamum indicum L.). Higher magnitude of sea effects indicated the preponderance of non-additive gene action control on all the traits. Among the lines VS 350, VS9101 and Tapi were evaluated as good general combiners for seed yield and its components. Tester TMV 3 was found to be a good male donor for plant height, number of capsules per plant and seed yield per plant. Among hybrids VS9101 x TMV4 was the most promising one as it had high sea effects and per se performance for seed yield per plant, number of capsules per plant and length breadth ratio. An attempt of multiple crosses with the use of all the above good general combiners would lead to obtain transgressive segregants for grain yield in advanced generations
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Miles, Donald B. "Can Morphology Predict the Conservation Status of Iguanian Lizards?" Integrative and Comparative Biology 60, no. 2 (June 19, 2020): 535–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa074.
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Synopsis The integrity of regional and local biological diversity is under siege as a result of multiple anthropogenic threats. The conversion of habitats, such as rain forests, into agricultural ecosystems, reduces the area available to support species populations. Rising temperatures and altered rainfall patterns lead to additional challenges for species. The ability of conservation biologists to ascertain the threats to a species requires data on changes in distribution, abundance, life history, and ecology. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) uses these data to appraise the extinction risk for a species. However, many species remain data deficient (DD) or unassessed. Here, I use 14 morphological traits related to locomotor function, habitat, and feeding to predict the threat status of over 400 species of lizards in the infraorder Iguania. Morphological traits are an ideal proxy for making inferences about a species’ risk of extinction. Patterns of morphological covariation have a known association with habitat use, foraging behavior, and physiological performance across multiple taxa. Results from phylogenetic general linear models revealed that limb lengths as well as head characters predicted extinction risk. In addition, I used an artificial neural network (ANN) technique to generate a classification function based on the morphological traits of species with an assigned IUCN threat status. The network approach identified eight morphological traits as predictors of extinction risk, which included head and limb characters. The best supported model had a classification accuracy of 87.4%. Moreover, the ANN model predicted >18% of DD/not assessed species were at risk of extinction. The predicted assessments were supported by other sources of threat status, for example, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species appendices. Because of the functional link between morphology, performance, and ecology, an ecomorphological approach may be a useful tool for rapid assessment of DD or poorly known species.
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Wang, Ru, and Yunyun Tian. "Between Good and Evil: Deconstructive Interpretation of Noon Wine." English Language Teaching 9, no. 11 (October 21, 2016): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n11p80.
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<p>Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) is an eminent novelist in the history of American literature, especially famous for her short novels. <em>Noon Wine </em>is her important masterpiece, its plot and motif always lead to reader’s deep meditation, and researches focus more on its narrative art, myth archetypes and themes. This paper tries to interpret <em>Noon Wine </em>from the perspective of deconstruction and selects several important characters to combine with the subversion of binary opposition in deconstruction, which aims to conclude that the relationship of good and evil in this story is consistent with Derrida’s definition for the relation of binary opposition---supplementation. Therefore, when people interpret things or person, it would be better to be more multiple, after all, between good and evil, there is not merely an arbitrary line but space for more possibilities.</p>
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Khadilkar, Pramod Ratnakar, and Philip Cash. "Understanding Behavioural Design: Integrating Process and Cognitive Perspectives." Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design 1, no. 1 (July 2019): 1863–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.192.
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AbstractBehavioural design is a crucial research area due to its potential in leveraging the positive outcomes of traditional design. Current need for theory building requires discerning the unique characteristics and challenges of behavioural design. To contribute towards this goal, the paper structures the conceptual and operational uniqueness of the behavioural design using the process and cognitive perspective. Process model uses the basic design cycle to discern the tasks and stages of behavioural design. Cognitive perspective uses dual process theory and cognitive strategies used by designers. Integrated model of process and cognitive perspective is the crucial contribution of this paper. A case study involving interview of lead designers from five behavioural design consultancies has been used to present and elaborate the usefulness of the integrated model of behavioural design. Integrated perspective links the process characters like incomplete analysis, simulation and evaluation stages, over reliance on the prescriptive methods, and unequal emphasis to multiple disciplines, with incomplete analytical process, and solution and knowledge driven strategy along cognitive perspective
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Mendes, Fábio K., Andrew P. Livera, and Matthew W. Hahn. "The perils of intralocus recombination for inferences of molecular convergence." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1777 (June 3, 2019): 20180244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0244.
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Accurate inferences of convergence require that the appropriate tree topology be used. If there is a mismatch between the tree a trait has evolved along and the tree used for analysis, then false inferences of convergence (‘hemiplasy’) can occur. To avoid problems of hemiplasy when there are high levels of gene tree discordance with the species tree, researchers have begun to construct tree topologies from individual loci. However, due to intralocus recombination, even locus-specific trees may contain multiple topologies within them. This implies that the use of individual tree topologies discordant with the species tree can still lead to incorrect inferences about molecular convergence. Here, we examine the frequency with which single exons and single protein-coding genes contain multiple underlying tree topologies, in primates and Drosophila , and quantify the effects of hemiplasy when using trees inferred from individual loci. In both clades, we find that there are most often multiple diagnosable topologies within single exons and whole genes, with 91% of Drosophila protein-coding genes containing multiple topologies. Because of this underlying topological heterogeneity, even using trees inferred from individual protein-coding genes results in 25% and 38% of substitutions falsely labelled as convergent in primates and Drosophila , respectively. While constructing local trees can reduce the problem of hemiplasy, our results suggest that it will be difficult to completely avoid false inferences of convergence. We conclude by suggesting several ways forward in the analysis of convergent evolution, for both molecular and morphological characters. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Convergent evolution in the genomics era: new insights and directions’.
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Zhan, Qing, Yilei Fu, Qinghua Jiang, Bo Liu, Jiajie Peng, and Yadong Wang. "SpliVert: A Protein Multiple Sequence Alignment Refinement Method Based on Splitting-Splicing Vertically." Protein & Peptide Letters 27, no. 4 (March 17, 2020): 295–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0929866526666190806143959.
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Background: Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is a fundamental task in bioinformatics and is required for many biological analysis tasks. The more accurate the alignments are, the more credible the downstream analyses. Most protein MSA algorithms realign an alignment to refine it by dividing it into two groups horizontally and then realign the two groups. However, this strategy does not consider that different regions of the sequences have different conservation; this property may lead to incorrect residue-residue or residue-gap pairs, which cannot be corrected by this strategy. Objective: In this article, our motivation is to develop a novel refinement method based on splitting- splicing vertically. Method: Here, we present a novel refinement method based on splitting-splicing vertically, called SpliVert. For an alignment, we split it vertically into 3 parts, remove the gap characters in the middle, realign the middle part alone, and splice the realigned middle parts with the other two initial pieces to obtain a refined alignment. In the realign procedure of our method, the aligner will only focus on a certain part, ignoring the disturbance of the other parts, which could help fix the incorrect pairs. Results: We tested our refinement strategy for 2 leading MSA tools on 3 standard benchmarks, according to the commonly used average SP (and TC) score. The results show that given appropriate proportions to split the initial alignment, the average scores are increased comparably or slightly after using our method. We also compared the alignments refined by our method with alignments directly refined by the original alignment tools. The results suggest that using our SpliVert method to refine alignments can also outperform direct use of the original alignment tools. Conclusion: The results reveal that splitting vertically and realigning part of the alignment is a good strategy for the refinement of protein multiple sequence alignments.
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David Das. "Divided Home, Divided Identity: A Postcolonial Study of Alam’s Own House." Creative Launcher 5, no. 1 (April 30, 2020): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2020.5.1.08.
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One of the outcomes in Postcolonial era is the inherited multiple identities of individuals and their respective communities. Torn apart in the Partition, the domestic and social spaces of millions of people across the border got blurred and diluted. It is exemplified more evidently when it comes to religious identity, both Hindu and Muslim. Seen from this perspective, the looming tension and growing vulnerability of members of both religions in Post-Partition Dacca and Kolkata have always been trapped in divided home and divided identities. Alam’s Own House by Debyendu Palit is one such short story that quintessentially addresses the crisis of home and identity across two cities, Dacca and Kolkata that have been the worst affected in the Partition. Telling from third-person point-of-view, this short story vividly narrates the mental tensions of the lead characters through portrayal of interfaith love, communal tensions, residential crisis, and more evidently the gradual realization of cultural differences. Nationhood and belongingness in Postcolonial Indian subcontinent are entangled with the divided home and divided identity. Alam’s Own House faithfully reflects all these issues.
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Chen, Jo-Pai, Wei-Chen Lu, Hsu Wu, Tsui-Mai Kao, Keng-Man Chiang, Hsing-wu Chen, and Sung-Hsin Kuo. "Multiple combinational strategies of immunotherapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: One institutional experience in Taiwan since 2016." Journal of Clinical Oncology 40, no. 4_suppl (February 1, 2022): 328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2022.40.4_suppl.328.
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328 Background: ESCC is a health burden in Taiwan due to smoking and drinking habits. In R/M setting, the prognosis is worse. In 2021, KN590 study(pembrolizumab with chemotherapy in CPS≥10%), CM648 study(nivolumab with chemotherapy or nivolumab with ipilimumab in TPS≥1%), and ESCORt-1st study(camrelizumab with chemotherapy in TPS≥1%) have all been shown to get survival benefits compared with chemotherapy alone in front-line setting. Further immunotherapy combinations with targeted therapies and subsequent therapy options after anti-PD1 failure deserve more investigation. Methods: From early 2016 to late 2021, 26 advanced ESCC patients had ever received immunotherapy-containing regimens in Yun-lin Branch of National Taiwan University Hospital. We have reviewed basic characters, ICIs regimens, and treatment response of these patients. Results: 3 patients under progression during front-line KN590 got PR by subsequent afatinib(2) or lenvatinib(1) use. So, the overall response rate of advanced ESCC to immunotherapy-containing regimens was 59%(17/29) and disease control rate was 72%(21/29). Conclusions: Afatinib has multiple immuno-modulatory effects. AP or NA is an effective regimen in Taiwan, where double cancers, like HNSCC and ESCC, are popular due to smoking, drinking, and bêtel-nuts chewing. Following KN590 good efficacy was also seen in our institution and afatinib with anti-PD1 could be introduced in CT-unfit patients. In unresectable and/or oligometastatic ESCC, induction triple therapy may lead to conversion chemoradiation, even to final surgery. EGFR or VEGFR TKI with immunotherapy might also be a subsequent recue regimen after front-line anti-PD1 failure.[Table: see text]
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Suryawati, R. Kurniati, K. Yuniarto, S. I. Aisyah, F. Ramadhani, D. Sukmadjaja, R. Kurniati, Supenti, and R. Syafrina. "Morphological Diversity of Chrysanthemum (Dendranthema grandiflora Tzvelev) Genotypes induced by EMS (Ethyl methane sulfonate)." BIO Web of Conferences 69 (2023): 01015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20236901015.
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Ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) is one of chemical mutagen which it known to cause point mutations in plants. The mutation was changing in one or some character based on Basa nucleotide. The changing shown by morphological characteristic to create novelties and superior characters. This study aim was to evaluate nine chrysanthemum genotypes of the MV4 generation by EMS treatment. The observation parameters were quantitative and qualitative characters. The quantitative charactera are number of flower buds, flower diameter (cm), flower stalk length (cm), leaf length (cm), leaf width (cm), plant height (cm), and stem diameter (cm). And the qualitative ones are stem, leaf, and ribbon flower colour. Morphological character analysis used the Statistical Tools for Agricultural Research (STAR) statistical program. One-way ANOVA was used to compare the means of different genotypes, and means were separated using Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT) at a significance level of 0.05. The highest plant, stem diameter, and flower stalk length were obtained genotype JE0 as a contol plant. Genotype JE4.8 as a selected plant showed the diameter of flower buds, number of flower buds, leaf length, leaf width and stem diameter. JE2.44 (Purple group 75 A) and JE5.31 (Red purple group 60 A) were significantly different of colour JE0 as control (Red purple group 70 B).
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Novachenko, Tetіana Vasylivna. "COMPETITION OF REPRESENTATION OF VALUE ALTERNATIVES TO SOCIO-POLITICAL REALITY OF UKRAINE." UKRAINIAN ASSEMBLY OF DOCTORS OF SCIENCES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 1, no. 14 (June 16, 2018): 184–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.31618/vadnd.v1i14.110.
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The article presents an analysis of the competition between the imaginations of value alternatives relative to the socio-political reality of Ukraine in the context of the archetypal approach. The study of this problem is based on the works of French sociologists — Gilbert Durand and Michel Maffesoli, as well as developments of scientists of the Ukrainian school of archetypics. According to the changes in the psychosocial nature of modern society and man, the expediency of applying the archetypal approach to understanding social and political phenomena, processes, and also the characters and types of managers is proved. Archetypes, manifested through imagination, symbols and images, provide an opportunity to see the diversity of socio-political life holistically, without dominating one or other of its sides.It is noted that a social system of any scale presupposes the existence of a system of certain values shared by the majority of society, since it is in them that the answers that this or that society gives to fundamental worldview problems are contained. Thus, in the epoch of postmodern, the valuable semantic structure of plurality with a priority of self-realization of the personality and expansion of the sphere of its individual choice is characteristic for this time. At the same time, a significant role in this process is played by symbolic capital — prestige, reputation, image, which, in the main, is modeled and supported by virtual reality and igroizization. In such conditions, people not only define varieties of ideal values, converting them into each other, but retain them in the social imagination as an imperative, norm, ideal. It has also been confirmed that any accumulation must be used, since the multiple values of social imagination, realized in the psychosocial concepts of people and society, lead to the development of public opinion and in solidarization. It is established that the competition of multiple value representations is a personinternalized idea that has a transpersonal character that influences the creation of a socio-political reality in Ukraine.
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Hare, Robin M., and Leigh W. Simmons. "Sexual selection maintains a female-specific character in a species with dynamic sex roles." Behavioral Ecology 32, no. 4 (March 25, 2021): 609–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab005.
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Abstract The effects of sexual selection are more conspicuous among male animals, and, as a result, the majority of sexual selection research focuses on males. However, burgeoning evidence suggests that sexual selection also acts on females, and there have been calls for an increased focus on females. Here, we used a multivariate approach to analyze sexual selection in Kawanaphila nartee, a spermatophore gift-giving bushcricket with dynamic sex roles. Early in the breeding season, females compete for males, and, later, when environmental food resources are more abundant, sex roles revert to Darwinian convention. Ear size, which is much greater in females than in males, has been suggested to affect female fitness as females with larger ears are more likely to reach calling males first under sex-role-reversed conditions. We tested this suggestion and found evidence of positive linear and nonlinear correlational selection acting on female ear size early in the breeding season (under reversed sex roles) but not later in the breeding season (under Darwinian sex roles). Interestingly, there was no correlation between mating success and reproductive success (Bateman gradient) at any time during the season. Together, our results indicate that even brief and circumscribed periods of intrasexual competition among females can lead to sexual selection on morphological characters and that this selection may not depend on multiple mating. Considering the wealth of reports in the literature of brief episodes of intrasexual competition among female animals, we recommend increased study of sexual selection acting on females.
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Neumann, Claus-Peter. "The Complex Web of Othernesses in Marcus Gardley’s Play The Road Weeps, the Well Runs Dry." Societies 8, no. 4 (October 23, 2018): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc8040104.
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Marcus Gardley’s play The Road Weeps, the Well Runs Dry (2013) traces the development of a Black Seminole community in the Indian Territory from 1850 to 1866, with occasional flashbacks to the days of the Seminoles’ removal from Florida. Rather than positing a unified ethnicity, the action reveals a complex web of Othernesses, including characters identified as “black”, others as “full-blood Seminole”, and still others as “black and Seminole”. Given the lack of ethnic unity, the new community constructs an identity in its distinction from and enmity with the neighboring Creeks, pointing to an underlying irony since the Creeks actually represent a main component in the ethnogenesis of the Seminoles in the 18th century. By calling attention to this simulacrum of Otherness, the play questions identity formation based on difference from an Other. Finally, Christian and pagan beliefs and customs live side by side in the community and compete for dominance over it. The multiple frictions caused by inner-group disputes, external conflicts with a constructed Other and religious discord lead to outbursts of violence that threaten to tear the community apart. Only a re-integration of its component parts can save it.
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Anwer, Qurat ul Ain, and Amna Zahid Chaudhary. "Intersectional Experiences of Rural Women: Analyzing Impact of Gender and Class in Aysha Baqir’s Beyond the Fields." Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE) 13, no. 2 (June 1, 2024): 215–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.61506/01.00318.
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The present study aims to analyze the impact of gender and class on rural women. The study focuses on intersectional experiences of female characters. In Beyond the Fields (2019), Baqir reveals how multiple layers of oppression intersect and shape identities of female characters and how these females, Zara, Tara, and Amma, resist and navigate the situations. The purpose of this research is to investigate the various struggles, self-determination, and fortitude demonstrated by rural women in the novel. The present study is descriptive in nature. Close reading and text-based analysis methods are applied. It centers on rural women’s experiences within various social and political contexts. The intersectional framework addresses important axes of social division, including race, class, gender, and disability, which interact and have an impact on one another. These social axes control the hierarchies of power in a given society, which can lead to prejudice and inequality. In literary studies, representation of women is no longer limited to European and American academic writings. The South Asian fiction writers also exhibit a feminist approach in their works, within the feminist paradigm. The study has been limited to the analysis of intersectional experiences of rural women in the text. For the analysis, intersectionality theory is used as the theoretical framework presented by Patricia Hill Collins. The findings of the present study show that rural women face intertwined oppressions of gender and class. Rural women’s resistance changed their experiences. The novel provides an insight into the intersectional nature of rural women in a patriarchal society where gender and class play a vital role in shaping individual identity. This study will provide a deeper understanding of their experiences and their potential to ignite revolutionary societal change by investigating their intersecting realities.
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Deng, Guoqiang, Min Tang, Yuhao Zhang, Ying Huang, and Xuefeng Duan. "Privacy-Preserving Outsourced Artificial Neural Network Training for Secure Image Classification." Applied Sciences 12, no. 24 (December 14, 2022): 12873. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app122412873.
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Artificial neural network (ANN) is powerful in the artificial intelligence field and has been successfully applied to interpret complex image data in the real world. Since the majority of images are commonly known as private with the information intended to be used by the owner, such as handwritten characters and face, the private constraints form a major obstacle in developing high-precision image classifiers which require access to a large amount of image data belonging to multiple users. State-of-the-art privacy-preserving ANN schemes often use full homomorphic encryption which result in a substantial overhead of computation and data traffic for the data owners, and are restricted to approximation models by low-degree polynomials which lead to a large accuracy loss of the trained model compared to the original ANN model in the plain domain. Consequently, it is still a huge challenge to train an ANN model in the encrypted-domain. To mitigate this problem, we propose a privacy-preserving ANN system for secure constructing image classifiers, named IPPNN, where the server is able to train an ANN-based classifier on the combined image data of all data owners without being able to observe any images using primitives, such as randomization and functional encryption. Our system achieves faster training time and supports lossless training. Moreover, IPPNN removes the need for multiple communications among data owners and servers. We analyze the security of the protocol and perform experiments on a large scale image recognition task. The results show that the IPPNN is feasible to use in practice while achieving high accuracy.
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ŞENSOY, Ayşe, and Meryem AYAN. "Vişnenin Cinsiyeti Romanında Bahtin’in Grotesk Gerçekçiliğinin Ekosantrik Açıdan Yeniden İncelenmesi." Turkish Academic Research Review - Türk Akademik Araştırmalar Dergisi [TARR] 7, no. 3 (September 29, 2022): 861–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.30622/tarr.1118701.
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Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry (1989), which is regarded as one of the best examples in the postmodern fiction, offers a new space for re-considering genders, identities and environmental problems by effacing the boundaries of story/history, self/other, male/female, reality/fantasy, material/immaterial, nature/culture, natural/unnatural, and human/nonhuman. Questioning the monologic discourses of anthropocentrism and androcentrism, the novel deals with social restrictions, political upheavals, religious conflicts, authoritative inequalities, gender issues, and environmental destruction in multiple contexts. Winterson’s novel presents the voice, subjectivity and agency of the monstrous, the most feared, the ignored, the muted and the oppressed, including all human beings regardless of their gender and nonhuman life forms. To achieve this aim, the author retells some events in English history in a detailed way through the voices and perspectives of larger-than-life characters. In doing so, Winterson seeks to deconstruct the officialdom, authoritarian power relations, political hierarchies and social inequalities. She also attempts to eliminate the patriarchal and anthropocentric biases and norms for ecological justice. In this sense, the novel suggests a carnivalesque space with a multiplicity of self and voice and offers a dialogic world with infinite possible ways of existence, fluidity and interdependence of beings. Within this framework, this article seeks to explore Sexing the Cherry in the light of Bakhtinian grotesque realism within the ecocentric view to discuss the effects of the authoritarian, hierarchical and patriarchal attitudes of the human on human and nonhuman communities. In her novel, the author tries to revive the agency of the nonhuman to oppose Cartesian binary oppositions that keep humans away from their physical environment and lead to an anthropocentric tendency that reduces both nature and all its nonhuman inhabitants to objects. Therefore, the article aims to show grotesque responses and challenges demonstrated by the main characters to the environmental problems depicted in the novel. Consequently, Winterson, in accordance with Bakhtin’s grotesque realism, imagines a world of optimism and equality and focuses on the union and harmony of the human with the nonhuman.
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Santos, Paulo Junio dos, André Francisco Alcântara Fagundes, and Cíntia Rodrigues de Oliveira. "“Territórios Simbólicos de Identidades” Geeks: o Consumo de Fantasias e Ficções na Construção das Identidades Coletivas de uma Tribo Urbana." Organizações & Sociedade 29, no. 100 (January 2022): 74–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-92302022v29n0003pt.
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Abstract The aim of the present study is to investigate how the consumption of geek products acts in the identity of individuals who see themselves as members of this urban tribe. Geeks are taken as committed members fascinated by topics related to fantasy and science fiction universes; if we take into account a micro-scale, they form an identity territory. Based on its theoretical approach, the goal of the current research lies on promoting a dialogue between studies that have adopted the consumer culture theory (CCT) and organizational identity research, by taking into consideration that urban tribes are a kind of organization. The research corpus comprised interviews with seventeen people who identify themselves as geeks; these interviews were analyzed based on thematic categorization. Based on then results, geek-products’ consumption starts at childhood and goes all the way to adulthood; this process is influenced by characters in the fantasy and fiction universes. The consumed products hold symbolic elements of fantasy and fiction, so that they end up representing the extension of this tribe’s members ‘self’; moreover, they are a way of building collective identities within an urban tribe, in this case, geeks. We have shown that organizational identity studies can lead to greater dialogue with CCT in order to better understand complexities added to identity and multiple affiliations, and links in the identity construction of people forming an organization.
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Santos, Paulo Junio dos, André Francisco Alcântara Fagundes, and Cíntia Rodrigues de Oliveira. "“Symbolic Territories of Identity”, Geeks: Fantasy and Fiction Consumption in the Construction of Collective Identities in an Urban Tribe." Organizações & Sociedade 29, no. 100 (January 2022): 74–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-92302022v29n0003en.
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Abstract The aim of the present study is to investigate how the consumption of geek products acts in the identity of individuals who see themselves as members of this urban tribe. Geeks are taken as committed members fascinated by topics related to fantasy and science fiction universes; if we take into account a micro-scale, they form an identity territory. Based on its theoretical approach, the goal of the current research lies on promoting a dialogue between studies that have adopted the consumer culture theory (CCT) and organizational identity research, by taking into consideration that urban tribes are a kind of organization. The research corpus comprised interviews with seventeen people who identify themselves as geeks; these interviews were analyzed based on thematic categorization. Based on then results, geek-products’ consumption starts at childhood and goes all the way to adulthood; this process is influenced by characters in the fantasy and fiction universes. The consumed products hold symbolic elements of fantasy and fiction, so that they end up representing the extension of this tribe’s members ‘self’; moreover, they are a way of building collective identities within an urban tribe, in this case, geeks. We have shown that organizational identity studies can lead to greater dialogue with CCT in order to better understand complexities added to identity and multiple affiliations, and links in the identity construction of people forming an organization.
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Cracraft, Joel. "Problems with measuring taxic, morphological, and molecular rates of evolution: a methodological overview." Paleontological Society Special Publications 6 (1992): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200006304.
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Estimating rates of evolution, whether taxic, morphological, or molecular, entails numerous conceptual and methodological difficulties. Some of these may be ontological: (1) because assigning rank to supraspecific taxa, even within a cladistic framework, is never entirely objective, rates based on enumeration of taxa of a given rank are questionable because the entities being counted are not likely to be comparable in any theoretically meaningful sense, (2) rates of character-state change assume those changes can be enumerated unitarily, but in what sense is a character-state transformation of one character “equal” to that of another character? (3) rates of character change within a species, or among species, presupposes that “species” have been individuated correctly and comparably, yet in the paleontological record at least, only character-state information is available to individuate those taxa: different concepts of species imply rates may be measured differently.Difficulties in estimating rates may also be methodological. Rates of character change are sometimes estimated by transforming intertaxon differences/similarities to distances and then fitting them to a tree topology. Such transformations have the potential for error if distances are not corrected for homoplasy. With molecular data, these corrections necessitate assumptions, or empirical estimates, of patterns of character-state change (such as variation in probabilities of transition versus transversion substitutions) yet those parameters are themselves generally dependent upon some assumptions of relationships. Moreover, the values of those parameters will often vary depending upon the divergence times of the taxa being studied because of the accumulation of homoplasy.While rates of character change are seemingly best studied by optimizing those changes directly on a tree, many factors can influence estimates of relative rates along each branch: (1) for a given set of taxa, there may be multiple equally parsimonious trees, each with different topologies and with different patterns of character optimizations, (2) even if there is a single most parsimonious tree, characters can be optimized in different ways, thus changing measures of rates, (3) different outgroups can change optimizations (and relationships of the ingroup) and thus lead to differences in rate estimation, and (4) adding or subtracting taxa (the taxic sample) can often alter patterns of optimizations and thus estimates of relative rate; thus assumptions about the extent of extinction within the group being studied are directly relevant for any determination of rates of change along branches leading to the taxa included in the sample.Estimation of absolute rates presents additional difficulties because patterns of change within or across taxa must be calibrated to time. Rates depend upon assigning ages to lineages and the taxa being counted. Outside a cladistic framework accurate assignment is questionable, but even within a cladistic framework it is not at all straightforward.None of these difficulties are arguments against efforts to measure rates of change, but to one degree or another they will have effects on the accuracy of our estimates and thus may need to be considered in any given analysis.
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Sathish, M., Vinayak Rajat Bhat, Satheesh Varma M., and N. L. Balasudarsun. "Leadership Lessons from Indian Knowledge System." Purushartha - A Journal of Management Ethics and Spirituality 12, no. 02 (May 25, 2019): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.21844/16201912201.
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In a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world efficiently managing the human resources is highly challenging for this era leaders. Leadership is a powerful enabler that can leverage an organisation to any heights. But bad leadership can downside any organization which leads to destruction. To lead the organization effectively and efficiently leaders follow different types of leadership styles. So, one of the critical challenges is leading the organization and driving towards his vision. Therefore, one of the major issues and the real concern of any organization is identifying great leaders and nurturing the best qualities. Several theories were discussed and deliberated this issue from a multiple perspective. So many different qualities and styles of leadership have been discussed in modern management theories. The interesting observation is our ancient scriptures such as Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Arthashastra and Bhoja Prabandha etc., we get different perspectives of what leadership is and what it can do to an organization. For Instance, Lord Krishna who was the avatar of Lord Vishnu who was a divine soul with a high degree of intelligence, communication skills and ability to influence others and capable of resolving any crises faced by his devotees. In the modern scenario, it can be said that Lord Krishna has acted as the greatest crises manager the world has ever produced. If we look towards Mahabharata, we can say that Krishna was the Finest Strategist. Even though many other characters in Mahabharata have responded to the great challenges at that time. Krishna was also a thoughtful and intelligent leader he adopted different leadership style according to the time; people and situation. Majorly this paper focus on how our Indian ancient scriptures such as Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata and Ramayana had different perspectives on leadership qualities.
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Lapierre, Matthew Allen. "Emotion regulation and young children’s consumer behavior." Young Consumers 17, no. 2 (June 20, 2016): 168–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/yc-11-2015-00566.
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Purpose This paper aims to explore how children’s developing ability to effectively regulate their emotions influences their consumer behavior . Design/methodology/approach Working with 80 children and one of their parents, this study used direct observations of child behavior in a task where they needed to regulate their emotions and a survey of parents about their child’s emotional development and consumer behavior. The research used quantitative methods to test whether children’s emotion regulation predicted parent reported consumer behavior (e.g. purchase requests, parent–child purchase related conflict) via multiple regression analyses. Findings After controlling for children’s age and linguistic competence, the study found that children’s ability to control positively valenced emotions predicted consumer behavior. Specifically, children who had more difficulty suppressing joy/happiness were more likely to ask their parents for consumer goods and were more likely to argue with parents about these purchases. Practical implications Content analyses of commercials targeting children have shown that many of the persuasive appeals used by advertisers are emotionally charged and often feature marketing characters that children find affectively pleasing. These findings suggest that these types of marketing appeals may overwhelm younger children which can lead to conflict with parents. Consequently, marketers and policy makers may want to re-examine the use of such tactics with younger consumers. Originality/value While the potential link between children’s emotional development and consumer behavior has been suggested in theoretical work, this is the first known study to empirically test this theorized relationship.
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Knox, John A., and Paul J. Croft. "Storytelling in the Meteorology Classroom." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 78, no. 5 (May 1, 1997): 897–906. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477-78.5.897.
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The current explosion of scientific information available to science educators puts increasing pressure on conventional educational approaches. One educational technique that (a) facilitates the communication of essential knowledge, (b) is supported by cognitive science theory, and (c) is easily implemented in the atmospheric science classroom is the reformulating of lectures into stories. “Storytelling” here is understood to describe the oral or written communication of a “connected narrative of important events.” Stories differ from other pedagogical approaches, such as the traditional fact-laden lecture, through the network of multiple linkages between different characters, events, and facts in a story. Facts in a lecture may simply follow one after another; events in a story, by contrast, must follow from previous facts and the logic in the story itself. An account is given of the lead author's use of storytelling in an atmospheric dynamics course at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. In the 2-hour-per-week laboratory, the course material was cast in the form of stories—stories that framed the basic knowledge, conveyed key concepts, and related key topics to one another. Stories were delivered orally in class and through an informal laboratory workbook. The rationale for this approach, the stories told, and the students' reactions are described. An example of storytelling in a global climate change course is also provided to illustrate the usefulness of storytelling in a wide range of meteorology courses.
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Szabó, Márton, and József Pálfy. "Dapedium sp. from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) Úrkút Manganese Ore Formation (Bakony Mts., Hungary) and an overview of diversity of dapediiform fishes." Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100, no. 1 (September 9, 2019): 179–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12549-019-00390-7.
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Abstract Dapediidae are a characteristic group of deep-bodied Mesozoic actinopterygian fishes with a moderate diversity at genus- and species-level. Here, we add a new occurrence to their patchy fossil record and describe in detail a nearly complete dapediid specimen from the pelagic deposit of the Toarcian Úrkút Manganese Ore Formation in the Transdanubian Range of Hungary. The preserved characters represent nearly all anatomically important body parts and allow assignment to Dapedium and comparison with other dapediid genera. This is the first reported occurrence of the order in Hungary and the Carpathian Basin that extends the known geographical range of the genus to the Mediterranean (western Tethyan) Jurassic. A review of the temporal distribution of published occurrences of dapediids permits speculation that the disappearance of exclusively Late Triassic genera, coincident with the end-Triassic extinction event, was likely related to their specialised feeding strategies and light or incomplete squamation. Multiple environmental crises (warming, acidification and anoxia) severely affected reefal habitats and favoured the survival of the generalist-durophagous Dapedium. The Úrkút specimen adds important data to the Early Jurassic, particularly Toarcian Lagerstätte-dominated fossil record of dapediids. In contrast to the end-Triassic, the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event did not lead to genus extinction among dapediids, possibly prevented by adaptations evolved during the preceding and similarly multi-stressor event. Continuing studies of Mesozoic fish specimens in Hungarian collections may provide new records and insights into other groups as well.
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Tomé, Laís M., Flávia B. S. Botelho, Douglas G. Castro, Tácio P. da Silva, Camila Soares Cardoso da Silva, and Amanda Mendes de Moura. "Grain Yield in Indirect Selection for Multiple Characters in Upland Rice." Journal of Agricultural Science 11, no. 2 (January 15, 2019): 516. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jas.v11n2p516.
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The aim of the present study was to compare the selection performed by the sum of standardized variables index (Z Index) with the selection based only on the grain yield character, to verify if the grain yield alone is a good alternative for the selection involving multiple characters. The experiments were conducted in Lavras-MG and in Lambari-MG, during the 2015/2016 agricultural year. The used design was the randomized complete block design with 3 replications. Thirty-six genotypes of the preliminary trial of upland rice breeding program of the Federal University of Lavras were evaluated. In order to compose the Z index, the following characteristics were evaluated: grain yield, height, number of days for flowering, 1000-grain weight, income, yield, leaf blast incidence, and grain length/width ratio. Z index was efficient in the selection for multiple characters whereas not all lines with the highest grain yield obtained good results in the other desirable characteristics, indicating that the selection based only on grain yield is not efficient when working with several characters of interest in upland rice cultivation.
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Siew, Nyet Moi, and Sopiah Abdullah. "LEARNING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: A TEACHING EXPERIENCE WITH SEMI-SCRIPTED ROLE PLAY." Problems of Education in the 21st Century 39, no. 1 (March 5, 2012): 130–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pec/12.39.131.
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Getting students to act out their roles and to apply appropriate arguments for and against their position as defined by the role is a challenge in approaching and exploring an environmental issue through role-playing. This action research addressed this concern by exploring how a semi-scripted role play could be used to promote active student learning in a Science, Technology and Society (STS) lesson. Using greenhouse effect as an example of environmental issue, this study explored how students playing different characters articulated their response to the semi-scripted role play setting. A group of 26 master students who took Science, Technology and Society (STS) as a core course took part in research and carried out a role play in groups of six for a period of two hours. The multiple data sources for this study consisted of student’s written reflections, an informal and unstructured observation, and Role Play Evaluation Form. Overall, the students indicated that the semi-scripted role play helped them understand an environmental issue both from their own and other’s perspective. The provision of guiding information via semi-script enabled students to feel empowered to express, share, argue, and negotiate more comfortably and confidently. In addition, students indicated that the role play helped them to develop critical thinking. The role play had helped create an engaging and productive learning experience that educators could use this exercise to lead students in the exploration of broader local environmental issues. Keywords: action research, environmental issue, semi-scripted role play, Science, Technology and Society.
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Coculescu, Bogdan Ioan, Diana Popescu, Lucia Ionescu, Gabriela Dumitrescu, Monica Marilena Tantu, Marius Necsulescu, and Alina Paunescu. "Research on New Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistant in Bacterial Pathogens Identified in Healthcare-associated Infections." Revista de Chimie 70, no. 8 (September 15, 2019): 2963–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.37358/rc.19.8.7465.
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Knowledge of antibiotic resistance mechanisms is absolutely necessary to successfully fight against multi-resistant bacteria, the solutions to this issue being a direct consequence of understanding the mechanisms underlying its occurrence. Considering that in Romania more than 92.3% of patients have been receiving antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery for more than one day, and empirical therapy is very common, the increasing antibiotic resistance is an important problem. The experiments were performed at the Military Medical Research Center on the 26 multiple drug resistance (MDR) bacterial strains from health care-associated infections (HAI): Escherichia coli (3), Klebsiella spp. (4), Pseudomonas aeruginosa 10), Proteus mirabilis (1), Staphylococcus aureus (7) and Enterobacter cloacae (1). They were isolated and initially identified by the Medical Analysis Laboratory of the Dr. Al. Gafencu Emergency Military Hospital, Constanta and the Microbiology Laboratory from the Military Medical National Institute for Research and Development Cantacuzino of Bucharest. Bacterial strains were reseeded on specific culture media, and identification was based on culture, morpho-tinctorial characters and biochemical properties. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed by the Kirby-Bauer diffusion method, following the CLSI 2016 guidelines. The results obtained lead to the idea of reconsidering the strategy for the use of antimicrobial substances by the following actions: performing in vitro sensitivity tests, close collaboration between the clinician and microbiologist, finding additional methods for assessing the effective concentrations of the antibiotic at the level of the infections. The observed percentage of antibiotic resistance in our study was 85.72%, that being much higher than the mentioned percentage by the European Antibiotic Surveillance Report (EARS-Net) for Romania in 2013 (25-50%).
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Nascimento, Daniela De Almeida. "(Con)figurações femininas nos desvãos da ordem patriarcal: uma leitura feminista de A vida sonhada das boas esposas, de Possidónio Cachapa / (Con)figurations in the Patriarchal Breaks: A Feminist Reading of A vida sonhada das boas esposas, by Possidónio Cachapa." Revista do Centro de Estudos Portugueses 41, no. 65 (December 27, 2021): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2359-0076.41.65.127-143.
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Resumo: Fundamentando a investigação no feminismo decolonial (LUGONES, 2020; VÈRGES, 2019), o propósito deste trabalho é empreender uma discussão acerca do modo como se apresentam personagens femininas e as relações de gênero no século XXI no romance português contemporâneo A vida sonhada das boas esposas (2019), de Possidónio Cachapa. As personagens femininas constituem o fio condutor de uma narrativa situada em um Portugal cosmopolita contemporâneo que, embora interligado pelas tecnologias das redes sociais, mantém resquícios de ditames que remetem aos ideais de família nuclear propagados pelo Estado Novo (1933-1974). Assim, discurso e poder patriarcal perpassam e são determinantes das relações sociais da narrativa, sobretudo as que envolvem a protagonista Madalena que, apenas após a morte do marido, percebe-se como sujeito e passa a experimentar a vida desse novo lugar, a partir do qual estabelece relacionamentos próprios e não mais circunscritos ao seu papel social de esposa. Considera-se o feminismo como pressuposto filosófico do romance uma vez que a narrativa aponta, por meio das figurações femininas, para modelos existenciais múltiplos. Trata-se, portanto, de uma inscrição de modelos existenciais diversos no lugar da tradicional identidade feminina única, fixa e presa aos papéis de gênero estabelecidos por uma ordem patriarcal que, não obstante, ainda apresenta vestígios de um pensamento colonial.Palavras-chave: feminino; figuração; feminismo; Possidónio Cachapa.Abstract: Supporting the investigation in Decolonial Feminism (LUGONES, 2020; VÈRGES, 2019), this work aims to lead a discussion about how female characters as well as gender relations in the 21st century are presented in the contemporary Portuguese novel A vida sonhada das boas esposas (2019), by Possidónio Cachapa. The female characters compose the thread of a narrative placed in a cosmopolitan and contemporary Portugal that, while connected by the social media technologies, shows traces of the Novo Estado (1933-1974) diktat ideals about nuclear families. Therefore, the patriarchal discourse and power are determining of the social relations in the narrative, mainly the ones involving the protagonist Madalena who, only after her husband’s death, realizes she is a subject and comes to experience life in this new place where she establishes her own relationships no longer based on her social wife role. Feminism is considered the philosophical foundation of the novel once it points to multiple existential models through female figuration. Consequently, it is an inscription of diverse existential models instead of the fixed gender roles established by a patriarchal order. Nevertheless, there are still vestiges of a colonial thought.Keywords: female; figuration; feminism; Possidónio Cachapa.
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Koçak, Can. "The ‘non-speaking narrator’ as a methodological tool of analysis for various practices of discourse." Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture 11, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/iscc_00002_1.
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This article proposes the ‘non-speaking narrator’ as a methodological tool of analysis and writing with reference to the film Persona, directed by Ingmar Bergman. Focusing on the dialectic between the two characters of the film, the article brings forward the idea that the narrative is relayed by the constant silence of one of the characters. Since the nature of that silence changes the extent of the lingual content, it leads the talking character into divulgence. The ‘non-speaking narrator’ thus brings forward silence as a way of being heard, suggesting a new perspective also to everyday life conventions in communication. This power of the non-speaking narrator as a methodological tool derived from practice has the potential to generate multiple interpretations and can be applied to various areas of communication studies.
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Queen, Joshua D., Markus Bursch, Jakob Seibert, Leonard R. Maurer, Bobby D. Ellis, James C. Fettinger, Stefan Grimme, and Philip P. Power. "Isolation and Computational Studies of a Series of Terphenyl Substituted Diplumbynes with Ligand Dependent Lead–Lead Multiple-Bonding Character." Journal of the American Chemical Society 141, no. 36 (August 7, 2019): 14370–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b07072.
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PYROGOV, V. "Conceptual-philosophical and linguocultural substantiation of transformations in translating a poetical text from English into Japanese and Chinese: a comparative-typological aspect." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Oriental Languages and Literatures, no. 26 (2020): 27–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-242x.2020.26.27-31.
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The paper focuses on the problem of translation and translatability of poetic texts with regard to genetically different languages that have dichotomically opposed writing systems, particularly alphabetic and character based ones. On the one hand these are the languages that belong to the Indo-European family, namely, English, Ukrainian and Russian and, on the other, the East Asian languages, particularly, Japanese and Chinese. The core of the study is Robert Burns' poem "A Red, Red Rose" translated into the above-mentioned languages. When translating this poem from English (phonetic) into Japanese (character-syllabic), or Chinese (ideographic) languages, an attempt to convey poet's feelings embodied in the original context with the help of characters, the structural and semantic properties of which are dichotomously opposite to the alphabetic graphemes of the English writing, it is necessary to make substantial lexical and grammatical transformations that do not allow to preserve the identity of the original. In a sense, such translation can be viewed as an attempt to use characters as phonetic signs that correspond to certain lexemes of the original. At the same time, replacing words written in the phonemic way (letters) by whole graph-semantic units (characters), leads, on the one hand, to the loss of specific connotations of the original, and on the other, to the emergence of semantic interference due to multiple meanings of the most characters, therefore preventing adequate perception of the original content by native speakers of the Japanese or Chinese languages. Characters are intended, first of all, to directly fix thoughts as ready-made word forms. Consequently, when translating, or more precisely, interpreting the mental code of the English written tradition, and accordingly poetry, using Japanese / Chinese language, you need to find a way to translate it into the mental code of the Japanese or Chinese poetic tradition. Only by getting more or less successful result one can consider the goal of the adequate translation accomplished. So, this paper suggests an approach to translating a poetic text from a phonetic into a character language on the basis of semantic and linguocultural analysis of the dichotomically opposed cultural concepts.
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Loney, Alexander C. "EURYKLEIA'S SILENCE AND ODYSSEUS’ ENORMITY: THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF ODYSSEUS’ TRIUMPHS." Ramus 44, no. 1-2 (November 27, 2015): 52–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rmu.2015.3.
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At his greatest moment of triumph, Odysseus demands holy silence. The hero who has more to say about himself than any other Homeric character, who boasts that his fame resounds up to heaven, quiets his most ardent accomplice, the old, faithful nurse Eurykleia, as she is about to shout in joy at his victory over the suitors. Why this uncharacteristic circumspection, this apparent humility? Reaching an answer to this question will take us through several important topics in the critical study of the Odyssey. We will find greater nuance to Odysseus’ ethics than are usually allowed; certain words and phrases have underappreciated layers of meaning that are brought out by paying attention to other contexts and parallel episodes in which they are used; focalization can be deliberately obscured; several of Odysseus’ greatest triumphs turn out to have an ironic cast. The broader conclusion my investigation leads to is that, behind the surface, positive interpretation of his character, Odysseus casts a darker shadow connoting a more sinister evaluation. Odysseus recognizes the possibility of such a negative interpretation when he silences both Eurykleia and the darker, alternative evaluation of his character that her reaction ironically signifies. This conclusion should lead us to revise a prominent (perhaps even the prevailing) view that the Odyssey is essentially a univocal text. This study might best be thought of as an experiment in seeing how far we can take the possibility of multiple, countervailing interpretations of Homeric language. If my reading is even partly persuasive, the Odyssey will come to seem more sophisticated and more disturbing than we might have thought.
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Hu, Mianjun, Xiwen Qu, Jun Huang, and Xuangou Wu. "An End-to-End Classifier Based on CNN for In-Air Handwritten-Chinese-Character Recognition." Applied Sciences 12, no. 14 (July 7, 2022): 6862. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12146862.
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A convolutional neural network (CNN) has been successfully applied to in-air handwritten-Chinese-character recognition (IAHCCR). However, the existing models based on CNN for IAHCCR need to convert the coordinate sequence of a character into images. This conversion process increases training and classifying time, and leads to the loss of information. In order to solve this problem, we propose an end-to-end classifier based on CNN for IAHCCR in this paper, which, to knowledge, is novel for online handwritten-Chinese-character recognition (OLHCCR). Specifically, our model based on CNN directly takes the original coordinate sequence of an in-air handwritten-Chinese-character as input, and the output of the full connection layer is pooled by global average pooling to form a fixed-size feature vector, which is sent to softmax for classification. Our model can not only directly process coordinate sequences such as the models based on recurrent neural network (RNN), but can also obtain the global structure information of characters. We conducted experiments on two datasets, IAHCC-UCAS2016 and SCUT-COUCH2009. The experimental results show a comparison with existing CNN models based on image processing or RNN-based methods; our method does not require data augmentation techniques nor an ensemble of multiple trained models, and only uses a more compact structure to obtain higher recognition accuracy.
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Omielan, J. A., E. Epstein, and J. Dvořák. "Salt tolerance and ionic relations of wheat as affected by individual chromosomes of salt-tolerant Lophopyrum elongatum." Genome 34, no. 6 (December 1, 1991): 961–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/g91-149.
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Bread wheat cv. Chinese Spring (CS), an amphiploid from a cross between CS and salt-tolerant Lophopyrum (= Agropyron) elongatum (Host) Löve, 19 of 21 possible disomic substitution lines of L. elongatum chromosomes for CS homoeologues, and a check cultivar, PI 178704, were grown in a replicated field trial under two levels of salinity and control conditions. Under salinity, the amphiploid greatly outperformed CS in grain yield, biomass, and other characters, indicating that it is more salt tolerant than CS. Of the seven L. elongatum chromosomes, six increased salt tolerance in disomic substitution lines; the most dramatic increase was conferred by chromosome 3E. Increased salt tolerance of the amphiploid was associated with the exclusion of Na+ and Cl− and inclusion of K+ as well as retranslocation of K+. Lophopyrum chromosomes controlling these physiological characters were identified. Some of the chromosomes had multiple effects, where as others affected only a specific character. The largest effects were associated with chromosome 3E. In addition, several wheat chromosomes controlled the exclusion or inclusion of these ions; the most notable effects were by chromosome 4D. Salt tolerance correlated negatively with Na+ and positively with K+ concentration in the flag leaf and with the K+/Na+ ratios. The relationships were strong enough to be exploited as selection tools in the breeding of salt-tolerant wheat cultivars.Key words: salt tolerance, wheat, Lophopyrum elongatum.
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S, BERGALE, BILLORE MRIDULLA, HOLKAR A S, RUWALI K N, and SAI PRASAD S V. "Genetic variability, diversity and association of quantitative traits with grain yield in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)." Madras Agricultural Journal 88, september (2001): 457–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.29321/maj.10.a00366.
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Fifty genotypes of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) including Indian and exotic collections were evaluated for yield and other related characters. Five characters i.e.. spikes /plant, grain yield/plant, plant height, flag leaf area and 1000 grain weight exhibited high variability. The remaining traits showed moderate to low variability. Following the Mahalanobis' D² analysis. all the 50 genotypes were grouped into eleven clusters. Genotypes of different areas often grouped together in the same cluster, suggesting some degree of ancestral relationship between the genotypes. This also suggested a lack of relationship between the genetic diversity and place of collection of genotypes. On the basis of the data on genetic divergence and mean performance of yield and other traits, diverse and superior genotypes, namely, NP 890, CPAN 3030, PBW 175, NI 5439, K 65, K 68, HI 1136, K 7410, Narmada -112, Sujata, CPAN 4018, PBW 321, HI 1418, Lok-1, HI 1077, WH 147, CPAN 3031, HUW 234, GW 173 and Sonalika were selected to involve in multiple crossing programme to recover transgressive segregants. Further, on the basis of cluster means, cluster III has been identified for selecting parents for incorporating carly maturity, dwarfness, high flag leaf area and good harvest index: cluster IV for more grains per spike, Cluster x for number of spikes per plant; cluster XI for spike length and bold seed and cluster VI for grain yield per plant. Further, on the basis of character associations, it is argued that selection of plants with more spikes/plant, grains per spike, coupled with optimum harvest index should result in progenies with high grain yield potential in wheat.
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Clugston, J. A. R., C. E. Jeffree, A. Ahrends, and R. R. Mill. "DO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECT THE TAXONOMIC RELIABILITY OF LEAF CUTICULAR MICROMORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS? A CASE STUDY IN PODOCARPACEAE." Edinburgh Journal of Botany 74, no. 3 (August 2, 2017): 299–343. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960428617000233.
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Leaf cuticle micromorphology has been cited as an important set of taxonomic characters in gymnosperms, but previous studies have largely been based on small sample sizes. The premise of this study was to understand whether external factors affect cuticular micromorphology of Podocarpaceae. Two example species, Prumnopitys andina and Podocarpus salignus, were studied. Of 21 sampled characters, nine (c.43% of the total) were visually assessed as being moderately reliable or highly reliable for taxonomic discrimination for both species, with an additional six (c.29%) being moderately reliable or highly reliable for only one or other of the example species, and six characters (c.29%) unreliable for both. Seven of the most variable stomatal characters were selected for further analysis to establish whether environmental factors affect them. The relationship between these seven stomatal characters, the environment and climate was analysed using the R ‘vegan’ package and climate data gathered from WorldClim. Our results showed that both species had larger stomata in moist and shady conditions, and a higher density of (smaller) stomata in sunny and drier conditions. An additional novel finding was the presence of stomata on the adaxial leaf surface in 46% of samples of Prumnopitys andina: the first record of adaxial stomata in this species, highlighting the necessity of studying multiple samples of a given species. In conclusion, these results indicate that larger sample sizes than have hitherto been employed in cuticle micromorphological studies are necessary to fully document the amount of phenotypic variation that exists.
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Crescentini, Cristiano, Alessio Matiz, Matteo Cimenti, Eric Pascoli, Roberto Eleopra, and Franco Fabbro. "Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Personality and Psychological Well-being in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis." International Journal of MS Care 20, no. 3 (May 1, 2018): 101–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.7224/1537-2073.2016-093.
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Background: Varied evidence shows that mindfulness-oriented meditation improves individuals' mental health, positively influencing practitioners' personality profiles as well. A limited number of studies are beginning to show that this type of meditation may also be a helpful therapeutic option for persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: We evaluated the effects of an 8-week mindfulness-oriented meditation training on the personality profiles, anxiety and depression symptoms, and mindfulness skills of a group of patients with MS. A control group of patients with MS not enrolled in any training was also tested. Results: After mindfulness-oriented meditation training, participants in this group (n = 15) showed an increase in character traits reflecting the maturity of the self at the intrapersonal (self-directedness) and interpersonal (cooperativeness) levels. Moreover, increased mindfulness and conscientiousness and decreased trait anxiety were observed in participants after the training. Conclusions: These data support the utility for patients with MS of therapeutic interventions based on mindfulness meditation that may lead to enhanced character and self-maturity.