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One of the most important traits of onion bulb is its bulb fresh weight. Also, this trait is in a group of morphological markers that, together with RAPD, represent the parameter of the most precise identification of onion genotype. For the purpose of this study, the chosen genotypes were: Makoi bronzi, Piroska, AC 101, Jasenicki crveni, Bukino beo. Also, they were of a different geographical origin. Method of full diallel without reciprocals was applied in order to obtain F1 and F2 generation. Field trial with parents and hybrids F1 and F2 generation was set in a random block system with five replications at the Institute for Vegetable Crops, Smederevska Palanka, Serbia. Considering all crossing combinations, superdomination and domination are the modes of inheritance for bulb fresh weight. The best general combiner was the line Makoi bronzi. The highest level of SCA in F1 and F2 generation was found in hybrid combination Makoi bronzi x Piroska. Also, this hybrid combination had the highest values of heterosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The AVDM questionnaire for measurement of aggressiveness resulted from a factor analysis of the aggressiveness/ agreeableness scales from personality questionnaires based on different paradigms and personality models (Big Five Inventory -- BFI, IPIP--HEXACO--PI--R, Big Five Plus Two -- BF+2, Zuckerman--Kulhman Personality Questionnaire--III--Revised -- ZKPQ--III--R, Reinforcement Sensitivity Questionnaire -- RSQ and Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire -- MPQ). In Study 1, four factors were extracted: Anger, Vengefulness, Dominance, and Hostility. Based on the primary content of the extracted factors and correlations with the dimensions of the Eysenck PEN model and the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire, new items were created which referred to extracted factors. In Study 2, the four factor structure was confirmed. Based on Item Response Theory, the items with the best psychometric characteristics were retained. All scales, except Hostility, were more discriminant in the domain of average and above average scores. Hostility was discriminant in a wider range of scores. Construct validity of the AVDM questionnaire was confirmed in Study 3 via correlations with the scales of HEXACO--PI--R and the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire. Gender differences were found only in Vengefulness, which had higher correlations with physical aggression compared to other scales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jacques Bidet's theory of modernity is a fascinating research project which confronts us in a challenging way with a series of key theoretical and practical problems. The text focuses on the concepts of metastructure, domination, class and democracy. The most important concept is "metastructure", which is to be perceived as all coordination and legitimation resources (on the economic, legal-political and cultural levels -- the overcoming of any transcendental order) at the disposal of the citizens of modernity. These resources can be combined in several different ways, in varied structures of modernity. How are we to understand the ontological status of this metastructure? A full answer confronts us with another question: is it possible to offer a scientific explanation of the genesis of this modern (meta)structure? Thus, if metastructure is some sort of general grammar of modernity, the social structures are an actualisation of the possibilities of metastructure according to the spectrum ranging from the extreme of planned collectivism to the extreme of liberistic capitalism. Consequently, the duality of modernity is manifest in the fact that it is characterised, on the one hand, by universalistic legitimacy and, on the other, by the persistence of forms of (class) domination. According to Bidet, in capitalism a dominant class will be established with two poles -- property and competence -- which correspond to the interlinkage of market and organisation in such a form of society. For this reason, an attempt to achieve emancipation from the domination of the proprietor, in the case of planned collectivism, developing to the full the organisational dimension in order to satisfy the social needs in a more egalitarian way, necessarily results in the organiser's domination. But the thesis that the dominant class in capitalism has two poles (property and competence) is met with the objection that simultaneously too much and not enough is said about the second pole of this class (of managers). Namely, it remains unclear how we must think the unity of capitalist domination in the plurality of spheres of social power; and if, on the contrary, we must abandon this unity, why should we limit ourselves to only two poles? The author concludes with a discussion of two questions which he deems to be decisive: to what extent can the inequalities related to property or competence be designated as class relations or forms of domination? And what is the relation between various modalities of class relations or relations of domination, and the institutions of modern poliarchic democracy which is centred on the multi-party system? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes the practical application of triple test cross analysis. The method is illustrated using data for cotyledon area obtained by studying two inbred lines and their cross as well as 30 crosses between the inbreds and 10 randomly selected lines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]