The Rawlsian Way of Doing History of Political Philosophy

AbstractThe paper discusses Rawls’ method of doing history of political philosophy, which combines two approaches – namely the “reflective-comparative approach” and the “contextual approach.” These approaches are innovative and interesting for studying Rawls in tandem with other philosophers from the past, but they prove to be in tension with each other if used as methods for a comprehensive study of the history of political philosophy

STUDY REGARDING THE BEHAVIOR OF SOME VARIETIES OF WHEAT, IN ECOPEDOLOGICAL CONDITIONS, FROM THE SOUTH-WEST AREA OF DOLJ COUNTY

The research aims at the comparative study of some varieties of autumn wheat in conventional cultivation system, in the conditions of the eutricpsamosol, from Poiana Mare, on an area of 300 ha cultivated with wheat, for a better knowledge of them, in order to the recommendation to cultivate in the area, the varieties that can express to the maximum, the productive and qualitative potential.For two years (2019 - 2020), within S.C. Primagrimar SRL Poiana Mare, Dolj were grown wheat varieties: MIRANDA, OTILIA - Romanian varieties and AVENUE, SORRIAL - French varieties. Regarding the obtained production, the Miranda variety registered the average value of 7800 kg / ha, and the Sorrial and Avenue varieties obtained an average production of 8050-8150 kg / ha.The high production of these French varieties is argued by the fact that they belong to the Premium group, very productive, very drought tolerant and with high ecological plasticity, with good resistance to wintering, falling, diseases and high twinning capacity, receptive to fertilizer doses, superior in terms of quality.The biological potential is very high reaching 11.000 kg / ha. Given the very high rainfall in June, when the plants reached physiological maturity, in both years of research, it was observed that foreign varieties lose their baking qualities very quickly, due to rains that "wash" gluten and reduce their hectoliter mass, which is not the case with Romanian varieties. Avenue, being extra early, was the most affected during the research period

Impact of quasi-periodic and steep-spectrum timing noise on the measurement of pulsar timing parameters

Timing noise in pulsars is often modelled with a Fourier-basis Gaussian process that follows a power law with periodic boundary conditions on the observation time, $T_\mathrm{span}$. However the actual noise processes can extend well below $1/T_\mathrm{span}$, and many pulsars are known to exhibit quasi-periodic timing noise. In this paper we investigate several adaptions that try to account for these differences between the observed behaviour and the simple power-law model. Firstly, we propose to include an additional term that models the quasi-periodic spin-down variations known to be present in many pulsars. Secondly, we show that a Fourier basis of $1/2T_\mathrm{span}$ can be more suited for estimating long term timing parameters such as the spin frequency second derivative (F2), and is required when the exponent of the power spectrum is greater than ~4. We also implement a Bayesian version of the generalised least squares `Cholesky' method which has different limitations at low frequency, but find that there is little advantage over Fourier-basis methods. We apply our quasi-periodic spin down model to a sample of pulsars with known spin-down variations and show that this improves parameter estimation of F2 and proper motion for the most pathological cases, but in general the results are consistent with a power-law model. The models are all made available through the run_enterprise software package.Comment: This article has been accepted for publication in MNRAS Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Societ

PARTIAL RESULTS REGARDING THE INFLUENCE OF SOME TECHNOLOGICAL ELEMENTS ON THE YIELD OF DRIED HERBA TO THE PRIMULA OFFICINALIS HILL. SPECIES

Sustainable use of natural resources is one of the great challenges of our time. Thus, there is a return to nature, to homeopathic medicine and to phytotherapy. Primula officinalis Hill, has been used since ancient times in popular medicine due to its many healing properties. The main purpose of the study is the introduction into the culture of the species Primula officinalis Hill. The research started in 2016 by accumulating information on the existing genetic resources. The plants necessary for the establishment of the experiments were brought from the spontaneous flora of Braşov Country. The study aimed to establish the optimal breeding mode, the optimal planting time and nutrition space. These technological links influence the the plant yield but also on the content in active principles. The paper presents partial results regarding the elaboration of cultivation technolog

PEDOLOGICAL STUDY OF LAND SUITABILITY IN THE AREA OF MAVRODIN TELEORMAN COUNTY, REGARDING THE ARRANGEMENT OF IRRIGATION WITH WATER FROM ZOOTECHNICAL COMPLEXES

The studied area is located in the center of Teleorman County, belonging to the Mavrodin cadastral territory, currently used as an arable land. The pedological mapping was performed with the purpose of identifying the soil area, assessing its fertility as well as the suitability for irrigation with wastewater. In this regard, a soil profile was opened and several surveys were collected from soil samples in natural and modified settlements, for morphological, physical and chemical analyzes. The soil type identified is red preluvosol. Geomorphologically, the land is part of the Roman Plain, the subunit of Burnaz, between the Danube Lunca, the Vedea, Teleorman and Calniştei valleys, extended west to the Teleorman river and the eastern limit of the county. The ground level is maintained between 8-10 m, with small fluctuations depending on the terrain. The type of soil identified, is classified in the luvisoluri class, having the following sequence of horizons: Ao-AB-Bt-C. The criteria for classification into classes, subclasses and other subunits of land according to the suitability to irrigate with waste water are those mentioned in chap. 10 from MESP, vol II (ICPA, 1987) with some additions. According to Annex 11.1 of the MESP, vol II (ICPA, 1987), the following additional criteria intervene in the selection of lands that can be irrigated with wastewater (soil type, soil texture, soil volume, soil thickness, erosion, soil unevenness, groundwater depth, excess surface moisture, other restrictions

LAVENDER (LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA MILL.) - MEDICINAL-ALTERNATIVE SPECIES IN THE STRUCTURE OF CROPS IN AGRICULTURAL FARMS, IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

From the medicinal species Lavender, the inflorescences (Flores SpicaeLavandulae), with a pleasant, characteristic smell, with notes of freshness, are used for therapeutic purposes. The active principle of lavender flowers is the volatile oil, the content of which differs depending on the species, variety, variety, time of harvest or the form of conditioning. Fresh flowers contain up to 0.8% volatile oil, and dried ones up to 1.5%. Lavender flowers have a high content of linalool (a terpene alcohol, which helps to synthesize vitamin E and a non-toxic insecticide), they also contain tannin, bitter principles, resins, pectins and other alcohols (nerol, lavandulol). The volatile oil whose main component is free linalool (40-60%) or in the form of linalyl acetate (40-50%) has medicinal uses.In the volatile oils of Lavandulaangustifolia L., 22 compounds were identified, of which 14 major compounds (in concentration above 0.2%) represented 99.53% of the total