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Smallholder banana - based farming system dynamics of Arba Minch Zuria District, the case of Gamo Zone, Ethiopia: Qualitative exploration
No full textDifferent types of crops are produced in different agro-ecological zones of Ethiopia where specific biophysical conditions define the success of their production. This banana-based smallholder farming systems explorative study objective was to explore existing banana-based farming system dynamics and examine push–pull factors accelerating these dynamics. To achieve the objectives of study, three Kebeles of Arba Minch Zuria district were selected purposively. Both primary and secondary data were collected and analyzed using qualitative data analysis method. The results show that cropping systems of the study area have been changed a lot during the last years; going from seasonal crops farming to perennial fruit crops-based farming. An early farming practice of the study area was cultivating seasonal crops like maize, teff, sweet potato, and cotton. Later on farmers have shifted to perennial cash crops like banana and mango. Most farmers in the study area use cow dung, crop residues, poultry droppings, and house cleans to improve soil fertility of their banana field. During establishment of banana farmland, farmers inter-crop vegetable and cereal crops to maximize their farm income. When banana develop three to four suckers per hill and full canopy, farmers make their banana farm monoculture. Access to irrigation water, minimum input requirement nature of perennial crops, market demand, and existence of regular market were considered as pulling factors to shift farming system from seasonal cropping to banana-based perennial farming. Whereas soil salinity, lack of quality planting materials, poor sucker management, banana fruit market fluctuation, rainfall variability, lack of value addition practice, and weak market integration were considered as common pushing factors for banana production and marketing in Arba Minch Zuria district
Adaptability evaluation of improved Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) varieties for yield and other quantitative traits in Arba Minch, Southern Ethiopia
No full textTomato is one of the important vegetables grown all over the world for its nutritious and economic value. Varietal improvement for high yielding, pest resistance and tolerance, drought tolerance and processing quality traits are vital thereby to enhance production and productivity of the crop. Due to lack of improved varieties in the study area, local productivity of tomato is challenged and its production is very limited. Hence, identification of improved tomato varieties that are adaptable, high yielding and disease resistant is crucial before dissemination to boost its productivity in the study area. Therefore, this experiment was conducted at Arba Minch to evaluate ten improved tomato varieties for yield and yield components under irrigation condition using randomized complete block design replicated three times. ANOVA result indicated that there is a significant variation among tested varieties in all studied parameters. The mean total yield and number of fruits plant-1 of tomato varieties varied from 4991.1 to 11,215 kg ha-1 and 13.33 to 36.53 fruits plant-1, respectively. ‘Melkashola' scored the highest marketable yield (9,438 kg ha-1) and total yield (11,216 kg ha-1) being followed by ‘Bishola' (8,756 kg ha-1) and ‘Melkasalsa' (8,367 kg ha-1). On the other hand, ‘Melkasalsa' and ‘Miya' with moderately high yield might also be regarded as other potential varieties. Therefore, the first three varieties are recommended for cultivation in the study area and similar agro-ecology
Corrigendum to “Origin of shuttle-free sulfurized polyacrylonitrile in lithium-sulfur batteries” [J. Power Sources 492 (30 April 2021) 229508]
No full textThe authors regret to find a missing author in the authorship of this work. Tilahun Awoke Zegeye was not included as an author in the published article. Dr. Tilahun Awoke Zegeye was responsible for some Raman measurements and data curation. Unfortunately, during the long revision and collaborative process, his name was accidentally deleted. The corrected Authorship and Author Contributions Statement appears below. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. All the co-authors agree to this change. The corrected Authorship is as follows: “Chen-Jui Huanga,1, Ju-Hsiang Chenga,1, Wei-Nien Sub, Pouya Partovi-Azarc, Liang- Yin Kuod, Meng-Che Tsaib, Tilahun Awoke Zegeyea, Ming-Hsien Line, Sara Panahian Jandf, Ting-Shan Chang, Nae-Lih Wuh, Payam Kaghazchid, Hongjie Daii, Peter Maria Biekerj, Bing-Joe Hwanga,b,g,*” The corrected Authorship Contribution Statement is as follows: Chen-Jui Huang: fabricated the samples and carried out the experiments, characterizations, data analysis, and, Writing - original draft. Ju-Hsiang Cheng: fabricated the samples and carried out the experiments, characterizations, data analysis, and, Writing - original draft. Wei-Nien Su: reviewed the results and helped the, Writing - original draft. Pouya Partovi-Azar: conducted the theoretical analysis. Liang-Yin Kuo: conducted the theoretical analysis. Meng-Che Tsai: conducted the theoretical analysis. Tilahun Awoke Zegeye: Data Curation of Raman results. Ming-Hsien Lin: helped carry out the SEM and ex-situ Raman measurements. Sara Panahian Jand: conducted the theoretical analysis. Ting- Shan Chan: helped carry out the XAS measurement. Nae-Lih Wu: helped review the results. Payam Kaghazchi: managed the project and reviewed the results, data analysis, and, Writing - original draft. Hongjie Dai: helped review the results. Peter Maria Bieker: helped review the results. Bing-Joe Hwang: managed the project and reviewed the results, data analysis, and, Writing - original draft. All authors read and commented on the manuscript.link_to_subscribed_fulltex
A case of localized amnesia
No full textThe author describes the case of an adult male who survived a train wreck at the age of 24. Seventeen years after the crash, the man was diagnosed with hepatic abscess and became unconscious presumably from the pain. He awoke with no recognition of his current life and insisted that he was 24 years old. He came under the care of the author and regained memory with the exception of the five years following the crash. The author examines what constitutes memory and hypothesizes that the man relived the time of the crash because his current painful state became associated with the past one
Advancing HIV/AIDS combination prevention through mass media: a review of practices in Sub-Saharan Africa
No full textThis paper presents an assessment of the literature on the use of mass media campaigns to advance biomedical, structural and behavioural approaches to HIV/AIDS prevention in sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade (2000-2010). Studies on the use of mass media in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts were searched from two main electronic databases - Web of Science and PubMed. Studies meeting selection criteria were examined for the themes of the mass media programs studied in a content analytic approach. The findings suggest that while there are several biomedical and structural issues which the mass media could well have been instrumental for, their utilization in sub-Saharan Africa seems to be limited to behavioural interventions. It is concluded that at a time when recommendations for Combination Prevention are prevailing, the utilization of the mass media largely limited to a certain domain of HIV/AIDS prevention appears to be worthy of attention. © The Author(s) 2012.status: Publishe
Shōki
No full textHand-drawn manuscriptDimension: 26 x 52 1/2 in.Date: ca. 1897-1903Shōki (Chinaese, Zhong Kui) is an example of Chinese legend that was adapted in Japan and became a part of Japanese folklore.
Shōki is a “demon queller,” whose image is often included in the decoration for Japan’s May 5th festival . Although May 5th was believed to be the most harmful day in China, Japanese came to celebrate the day as “boys’ day.”
According to one legend, Shōki received first place on the highest level of the civil service examination, but committed suicide because the emperor Minghuang (712-756) did not honor him. Shōki’s appearance offended the emperor. Another legend tells that he failed to pass the exam and committed suicide. In either case, Shōki appeared in the dream of the sick emperor Minghuang and killed a demon who was about to steal the emperor’s flute and his consort Yan Guifei’s incense bag. When the emperor awoke from the dream, his sickness was gone. The emperor appreciated Shōki’s loyalty, and ordered Wu Daozi (active c. 710-760), a master of figure painting, to draw an image of Shōki as he appeared in the emperor’s dream.
Momoko Welch
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Oda, Eiichi. Chagake no gadai o shiru jiten: kaiga kakemono ni yomigaeru tōyō no kokoro. Kyoto: Kawara shoten, 2008, p.216.
Bartholomew, Terese Tse. Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art. San Francisco: The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2006, pp. 281 and 285
A further new species of Palaemonella Dana, 1852 from the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
No full textPalaemonella yalla sp. nov. is described based on two ovigerous females: the holotype from Thuwal, Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, and a non-type specimen from Masirah Island, eastern Oman. The new species is very close to P. okunoi Komai & Yamada, 2015, from which it is essentially distinguishable by the distoventrally armed merus of the second pereiopods. The Saudi Arabian specimen was extracted from a burrow of an unknown host, whereas the Omani specimen was found in a muddy depression created after flipping a large rock deeply embedded in the sediment.The Omani specimen was collected during a BioBlitz survey of Masirah Island (PI: Gustav Paulay) in November 2022. The first author thanks Jonathan Meiburg for his companionship and assistance in the field. Fieldwork in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, was supported by KAUST (FCC/1/1973-49-01) and baseline research funds to Francesca Benzoni. Digitalisation of line drawings was made in the laboratory of João R.V. Iganci (Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil). Paulo P.G. Pachelle (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil) kindly helped cleaning the black-and-white plates (Figs, 1, 2). The originally submitted manuscript was thoroughly reviewed by Zdeněk Ďuriš and Charles H.J.M. Fransen
Rachel Carson, a Voice for Organics - the First Hundred Years
No full textRachel Carson has been described as "an early supporter of organic farming". Publishing in 1962, she awoke a generation past, to the false promises of the “war on weeds”, the “war against the insects” and “better living through chemistry”. Carson wrote to a friend: “there would be no peace for me if I kept silent”. She asked the world to consider: “Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life?”. Carson has been described by TIME Magazine as one of “the 100 most influential people of the 20th century” and her book has been described as “the most influential book of the past 50 years”- yet on the occasion of the centenary of her birth, the author found that university students had "no idea" who she was, or what was "Silent Spring"
Las ideas no tienen historia
No full textProfessor Valenzuela looks into Ortega's thesis of the inexistence of a hi story ofideas, which the Spanish thinker elaborates from his principie of man and his
circumstance. For this purpose Prof. Valenzuela formulates critica! comments
which he derives from Husserl's Prologue to bis Logical Investigations, and which
he applies to Ortega's wo rk, History as System. The author then discusses the relationship th at has been established between Ortega's doctrine of ideas and the pragmatic paradigm, in order to distinguish between idea and belief in Ortega's system. At the same time he emphasizes the interest which Ortega awoke in Hispanic America, which contributed to a deper knowledge of German thought, while giving a Spanish form to the European logos without betraying the sense of an American
authenticity
CURSE MOTIVES IN THE “CURSE OF HAM†NARRATIVE: LAND FOR YAHWEH’S LANDLESS PEOPLE?
No full textAccording to the “Curse of Ham†narrative in the book of Genesis (Gen 9:20– 27), Ham gazed at his sleeping father Noah’s nakedness and did not cover him. When Noah awoke he cursed Canaan, Ham’s fourth and youngest son, and his offspring with slavery. Why did Noah curse Canaan and not Ham, the one who stared at his nakedness? And why did Noah curse Ham for the seemingly trivial act of not covering him? This article links Ham’s doing to Noah and Noah’s cursing of Canaan to a motive for land, the land of Canaan for Israel, Yahweh’s landless people. The curse of Canaan justified casting the Canaanites out of the land. It argues that Ham’s deed and Noah’s curse were invented by the Yahwist (J) author of the narrative to realise this motive of land for Israel.</jats:p
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