Journal articles: 'Literary production from Mauritius'

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Arnold, Markus. "Moving between Mauritius and the World (or Not)." Journal of World Literature 5, no. 4 (November 4, 2020): 505–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00504003.

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Abstract Contemporary literature from Mauritius, a heterogeneous multilingual production, is entangled within a complex transnational topology, where several increasingly recognized authors have deployed multiple identities through personal and editorial mobility. They benefit from (and participate in) the diversification of publishing structures, instances of dissemination, and audiences, while others hold very little symbolic capital. This paper discusses several key issues to understand the island’s multifaceted and unequal literary microcosm. It traces certain historical, linguistic and cultural predispositions of the Mauritian text today, addresses the reasons and implications of literary scale-shifting beyond the local, examines the modalities of trans/international recognition, and raises the issues at stake when translating these works. The island is hereby considered as a paradigmatic example of an emerging literary space on the postcolonial “periphery”, both contributing to challenging established canons, while remaining tributary to persisting hierarchies in the global literary system.

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Fahad Tayab, Ahmad, Md Monower Zahid Khan, S. M. Rafiul Islam, and Md Saleh Ebn Sharif. "Feasibility Study for the Production of Bio-ethanol from Sugarcane in Mauritius." International Journal of Pharmacy and Chemistry 5, no. 4 (2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.11648/j.ijpc.20190504.11.

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Lionnet, Francoise. "Black Accents: Writing in French from Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean (review)." Research in African Literatures 31, no. 3 (2000): 182–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2000.0087.

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Goenaga, Ricardo, David Jenkins, and Angel Marrero. "Yield Performance of Six Lychee Cultivars Grown at Two Locations in Puerto Rico." HortTechnology 26, no. 6 (December 2016): 748–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech03488-16.

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The globalization of the economy, increased ethnic diversity, and a greater demand for healthy and more diverse food production has increased the demand for tropical fruits. There is a lack of formal experimentation to determine yield performance and fruit quality traits of lychee (Litchi chinensis) cultivars. Six lychee cultivars (Bosworth-3, Brewster, Groff, Mauritius, Kaimana, Salathiel) grown on Mollisol and Inceptisol soils were evaluated for 8 years at the Adjuntas Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR-Adjuntas) and La Balear farm, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, respectively. At UPR-Adjuntas and La Balear, cultivar Groff had a significantly higher production (257,296 fruit/ha) of total fruit than other cultivars, whereas Salathiel had the lowest. However, total fruit production of ‘Groff’ was not significantly different from ‘Kaimana’ and ‘Bosworth-3’at La Balear. At UPR-Adjuntas, cultivars Groff and Bosworth-3 had significantly higher number of marketable fruit than the rest of the cultivars averaging 171,760 fruit/ha. At La Balear, ‘Kaimana’ had a higher number of marketable fruit, but it was not significantly different from ‘Groff’, ‘Bosworth-3’, and ‘Mauritius’, averaging 291,360 fruit/ha. At both sites, individual fruit weight of marketable fruit was higher in ‘Kaimana’ than the rest of the cultivars. However, at La Balear, there were no significant differences between ‘Kaimana’ and ‘Mauritius’. At both locations, cultivars exhibited erratic production patterns, which were characterized by lower production during 1 or 2 successive years following heavy cropping. At current farm gate prices and fruit yield reported in this study, cultivars Groff, Bosworth-3, and Kaimana can generate a good income for growers, and allow them to diversify crops as part of their farm operations.

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Lobin, K., H. R. Pappu, and S. P. Benimadhu. "Occurrence and Distribution of Iris yellow spot virus on Onion in Mauritius." Plant Health Progress 13, no. 1 (January 2012): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/php-2012-0826-01-br.

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Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV), a damaging viral pathogen of onion, was reported for the first time on onion in Mauritius in 2008. A survey was undertaken from 2008 to 2010 to determine the status of the virus in the major onion-growing localities. The disease was found to be prevalent in the east, southeast, south and west of the island in bulb and seed production stands. The high incidence of IYSV in onion fields in Mauritius shows the need for developing integrated management strategies to reduce its negative impact. Accepted for publication 26 July 2012. Published 26 August 2012.

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Gunawan, T. Bantacut, M. Romli, and E. Noor. "Biomass by-product from crystal sugar production: A comparative study between Ngadirejo and Mauritius sugar mill." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 141 (March 2018): 012009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/141/1/012009.

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Jori, F., J. Godfroid, A. L. Michel, A. D. Potts, M. R. Jaumally, J. Sauzier, and M. Roger. "An assessment of Zoonotic and Production Limiting Pathogens in Rusa Deer (Cervus timorensis rusa) from Mauritius." Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 61 (December 30, 2013): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12206.

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Lincoln, David. "Beyond the plantation: Mauritius in the global division of labour." Journal of Modern African Studies 44, no. 1 (February 6, 2006): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x05001412.

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Mauritius' position within the global division of labour has changed considerably since the country gained its independence from Britain in 1968. This reflects change in the country's employment structure and a re-articulation within global chains of production. In a transformation led by the state, the formerly plantation-based economy has become a predominantly service- and manufacturing-based one. Mauritius has since set its sights on becoming a ‘cyber-island’, a regional hub for computer-based service provision. In charting this developmental route, the Mauritian state has had recourse to favourable socio-historical conditions. By highlighting these cultural influences on the globalisation of the Mauritian economy, this study affirms the value of analysing new divisions of labour as an aspect of the centuries-old process of globalisation.

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Ramlall, Indranarain. "Gauging the impact of climate change on food crops production in Mauritius." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 6, no. 3 (August 12, 2014): 332–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm-12-2012-0079.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to delve into an extensive analysis of different food crops, ranging from bananas, beans, brinjals, cabbages, chillies, creepers, groundnuts, mixed vegetables, pineapples and tomatoes, over three decades. To maintain an ever-increasing population level, much stress is exerted on the production of food crops. However, till date, very little is known about how climate change is influencing the production of food crops in Mauritius, an upper-income developing country found in the Indian Ocean and highly vulnerable to climate risks. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the interactions between production of crops, harvest area for crops and weather metrics, a vector autoregressive model (VAR) system is applied comprising production of each crop with their respective harvest area. Weather metrics are then entered into as exogeneous components of the model. The underlying rationale is that weather metrics are not caused by production or harvest area and should thereby be exogeneously treated. Should there be cointegration between the endogenous components, the vector error correction model (VECM) will be used. Diagnostic tests will also be entertained in terms of ensuring the endogeneity states of the presumed variables under investigation. The impact of harvest area on product is plain, as higher the harvest area, the higher is the production. However, a bi-directional causality can also manifest in the case that higher production leads towards lower harvest area in the next period as land is being made to rest to restore its nutrients to enable stable land productivity over time. Other dynamics could also be present. In case cointegration prevails, VECM will be used as the econometric model. The VAR/VECM approach is applied by virtue of the fact that traditional ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation approach will be biased and susceptible to trigger off unreliable results. Recourse is made towards the Johansen and Juselius (1990) technique. The Johansen and Juselius approach is based on the following VAR specification-bivariate VAR methodology. X1,t = A0 + A1,1X1,t – 1 + A1,2X1,t – 2+ […] .+ A1,p X1,t – p + A2,1X2,t – 1 + A2,2X2,t – 2+ […] .+ A2,pX2,t – p + ßjW + e1,t […] […]..(1) X2,t = B0 + B2,1X2,t – 1 + B2,2X2,t – 2+ […] .+ B2,p X2,t – p + B1,1X1,t – 1 + B1,2X2,t – 2+ […] .+ B1,pX2,t – p + ajW + e2,t […] […] […](2) X1,t is defined as the food crops production, while X2,t pertains to harvest area under cultivation for a given crop under consideration, both constituting the endogeneous components of the VAR. The exogeneous component is captured by W which consists of the nine aforementioned weather metrics, including the cyclone dummy. The subscript j under equation (1) and (2) captures these nine distinct weather metrics. In essence, the aim of this paper is to develop an econometric-based approach to sieve out the impacts of climate metrics on food crops production in Mauritius over three decades. Findings – Results show weather metrics do influence the production of crops in Mauritius, with cyclone being particularly harmful for tomatoes, chillies and creepers. Temperature is found to trail behind bearish impacts on tomatoes and cabbages production, but positive impacts in case of bananas, brinjals and pineapples productions, whereas humidity enhances production of beans, creepers and groundnuts. Evidence is found in favour of production being mainly governed by harvest area. Overall, the study points out the need of weather derivatives in view of hedging against crop damages, let alone initiation of adaptation strategies to undermine the adverse effects of climate change. Originality/value – To the best of the author’s knowledge, no study has been undertaken in Mauritius, let alone developing of an econometric model that properly integrates production, harvest area and weather metrics. Results show weather metrics do influence the production of crops in Mauritius, with cyclone being particularly harmful for tomatoes, chillies and creepers. Temperature is found to trail behind bearish impacts on tomatoes and cabbages production, but positive impacts in case of bananas, brinjals and pineapples productions, whereas humidity enhances production of beans, creepers and groundnuts. Evidence is found in favour of production being mainly governed by harvest area. Overall, the study points out the need of weather derivatives in view of hedging against crop damages, let alone initiation of adaptation strategies to undermine the adverse effects of climate change.

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Bundhoo, Zumar M. A., Sumayya Mauthoor, and Romeela Mohee. "Potential of biogas production from biomass and waste materials in the Small Island Developing State of Mauritius." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 56 (April 2016): 1087–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.026.

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Davies, Simon. "Letters Pertinent and Impertinent: The Early Career of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre." Nottingham French Studies 54, no. 2 (July 2015): 140–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2015.0115.

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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre did not set out to be a professional writer. With career prospects blocked in France, he tried his luck at marketing his military engineering skills in Eastern Europe before acquiring a highly unsatisfactory post offered by the French authorities in Mauritius. The experience of these vastly contrasting stays in foreign lands had major implications for Bernardin's thought and values. On the one hand he gained first-hand knowledge of international intrigue in Russia and Poland, while on the other he encountered the bleak consequences of colonial government in Mauritius. His reactions to these experiences are reflected in his correspondence from 1762 to 1775. At the same time his letters reveal a yearning to withdraw from the pressures of complicated social existence and to retreat to the tranquillity of the countryside. Both strands of his experience and desire will find expression in his literary works.

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Adam, Noure Roukayya Badurally, Muhammad Zaid Dauhoo, Abdel Anwar Hossen Khoodaruth, and Mohammad Khalil Elahee. "A two-stage stochastic programming optimisation for sugar-ethanol-electricity production from sugarcane: a case study of Mauritius." International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation 7, no. 1 (2016): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmmno.2016.074371.

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Lobin, K., K. L. Druffel, H. R. Pappu, and S. P. Benimadhu. "First Report of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus in Tomato in Mauritius." Plant Disease 94, no. 10 (October 2010): 1261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-01-10-0030.

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Tomato is a food crop of economic importance in Mauritius. It is grown in open fields and in greenhouses by more than 4,500 small- and large-scale growers throughout the island. Open-field tomatoes are mostly a cooking type, while those produced in greenhouses are salad types. Acreage under production is approximately 900 ha with an annual production of approximately 11,500 tons. In September 2009, plants with reduced leaf size, leaf curling, and yellow margins associated with plant dwarfism were observed in open-field tomato crops in the southern part of the island. Whitefly populations were observed in these fields. These symptoms were suggestive of infection with a leaf curl-causing begomovirus such as Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) (family Geminiviridae, genus Begomovirus). Similar symptoms caused by TYLCV were reported in neighboring Reunion Island in 1997 (1). In October 2009, 3.15 ha of tomato were surveyed in the south at la Flora, Camp diable, L'escalier, Plein Bois, and Plaine Magnien to monitor the disease. Symptomatic plants were observed in all areas surveyed and disease incidence ranged from 5 to 50%. The disease was more prevalent in tomato ‘Swaraksha’ and ‘Epoch’, which are widely cultivated. Seventeen symptomatic leaf samples from La flora, Camp Diable, L'escalier, Plein Bois, and Plaine Magnien areas were collected for begomovirus detection by PCR. Total DNA was extracted and tested using AV494 (5′-GCC YAT RTA YAG RAA GCC MAG-3′) and AC1048 (5′-GGR TTD GAR GCA TGH GTA CAT G-3′) primers from the core region of the coat protein that detect most begomoviruses (2). Seventeen of 17 samples (100%) gave an amplicon of expected size. PCR amplicons from selected samples were cloned and sequenced. The consensus sequence was assembled, and the sequence (GenBank Accession no. HM448447) had 100% identity with nucleotides 458 to 1,036 of the Almeria isolate (GenBank Accession no. AJ489258), an isolate from the Netherlands (FJ439569), Morocco (EF060196), and Spain (AJ519441), and nucleotides 451 to 1,029 of the RE4 isolate from Reunion Island (AM409201). On the basis of the initial sequence obtained, specific primers (RM-TYLCV 583C: 5′-CCA CGA GTA ACA TCA CTA ACA-3′ and RM-TYLCV 895F: 5′-GGA ACA GGC ATT AGT TAA GAG-3′) were designed to amplify the remainder of the genomic sequence by PCR followed by cloning and sequencing of the amplicons. At least three clones were sequenced to arrive at the consensus sequence. Sequence comparisons showed that the TYLCV isolate from Mauritius had the greatest sequence identity (95 to 100%) with the above isolates. To our knowledge, this is the first report of TYLCV in tomato in Mauritius. In view of the economic importance of leaf curl disease in tomato in many parts of the world, an island-wide survey needs to be carried out to monitor the disease and assess its impact on tomato production. References: (1) M. Peterschmitt et al. Plant Dis. 83:303, 1999. (2) S. D. Wyatt and J. K. Brown. Phytopathology 86:1288, 1996.

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Stern, R. A., S. Gazit, R. El-Batsri, and C. Degani. "Pollen Parent Effect on Outcrossing Rate, Yield, and Fruit Characteristics of `Floridian' and `Mauritius' Lychee." Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 118, no. 1 (January 1993): 109–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/jashs.118.1.109.

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Fruits produced in two orchards, each consisting of adjacent blocks of `Floridian' and `Mauritius' lychee (Litchi chinensis Sonn.), were unequivocally identified as selfed or outcrossed by phosphoglucose isomerase (PGP; EC 5.3.1.9) isozyme analysis. The average rate of hybrid production in each orchard was 69% and 87% for `Floridian' and 17% and 65% for `Mauritius', respectively. The percentage of hybrids produced on trees adjacent to those of the other cultivar was invariably significantly higher than that produced on the more distant trees. However a significant correlation between hybrid percentage and proximity to the other cultivar, as well as between hybrid percentage and yield, was found only for `Floridian' in one of the orchards. A significant correlation was found between pollen source and the weights of fruits and seeds in both cultivars. Fruits originating from cross-pollination were heavier and contained heavier seeds than selfed fruits. The most pronounced effect of pollen parent on seed weight was found in `Floridian', which appears to exhibit inbreeding depression.

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Ramasamy Coolen, Preeya Vijayalakshmee, Toshima Makoondlall-Chadee, Chandradeo Bokhoree, and Ravi Foogooa. "Investigating Composting as a Mitigation Strategy for Climate Change Using a Modelling Approach." European Journal of Sustainable Development 10, no. 4 (October 1, 2021): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2021.v10n4p97.

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The waste management sector accounts for 19% of greenhouse gases produced by the island of Mauritius, and is second to the energy sector which contributes about 77% of total emissions. Significant mitigating measures are being sought to reduce the impact of the waste sector. The main greenhouse gas produced from waste in Mauritius is methane from landfill disposal. Among the different alternate waste management scenarios proposed, home composting is one strategy to achieve carbon reductions in the sector. However, this target can only be achieved if the composting process is properly controlled. Objectively, a lumped parameter model was used to analyse the set of variation parameters to achieve greatest reduction in methane through optimal composting. The composting matrix was modelled as a point source. Mass balance equations were coupled with heat transport equations and reaction kinetics equations to determine the optimal set of parameters for efficient composting of yard waste and kitchen waste. The simulations demonstrated that bulking of vegetable waste prior to composting is required to prevent production of methane.

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Neeliah, Harris, and Boopen Seetanah. "Does human capital contribute to economic growth in Mauritius?" European Journal of Training and Development 40, no. 4 (May 3, 2016): 248–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejtd-02-2014-0019.

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Purpose Real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for Mauritius has averaged more than 5 per cent since 1970 and GDP per capita has increased more than tenfold between 1970 and 2012, from less than $500 to more than $9,000. It has often been reported that human capital, along with other growth enablers, has played an important role in this development. The purpose of this paper is to study this nexus. Design/methodology/approach A human capital augmented Cobb-Douglas production function is used, where output is also a function of capital and labour. One of the innovations of the present paper is the use of a composite index to proxy human capital. The authors investigate the impact of human capital on economic growth in a dynamic vector error correction modelling (VECM) framework. Findings The general results here show that stock, labour and human capital are all significant growth determinants, with human capital having a long-run output elasticity of 0.36. The VECM results generally validated the long-run output elasticity, although a relatively lower elasticity of 0.1 is obtained. Both sets of results tend to point to the fact that human capital has significantly contributed to economic growth in Mauritius. Research limitations/implications The current paper paves the way for future work, which can build on the composite HCI developed here and aggregate it with relevant variables representing tertiary education and training, to better analyze and further understand the role of human capital on economic growth in Mauritius. Originality/value Here, the authors posit that human capital is an aggregate of health, education and nutrition, and the authors use a composite index along with other contributing factors to study its impact on economic growth, within a VECM framework.

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Boodoo, A. A., R. Ramjee, B. Hulman, F. Dolberg, and J. B. Rowe. "The response of creole, friesian and friesian cross cows to concentrate supplementation on village smallholdings in mauritius." Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) 1989 (March 1989): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0308229600011338.

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Milk production in the villages of Mauritius can be characterised as follows: about 90% of the ‘dairy’ cows on the island are owned by villagers. Cattle-rearing is a side-line activity of the family. Most villagers own one cow With a calf. No forage is cultivated. Forage sources for the cattle include sugar cane tops from June to December (harvest season) and shrubs and mixed grasses from road sides and common lands all the year round. All forages are available free and are collected by hand. There is very little or no use of concentrate supplements.The cattle are a mixture of the local Creole breed, Friesians and their crosses. Artificial insemination is widely used. Milk production is generally low (1200-1500 litres per lactation) when compared with European dairy cows. Lactations are normally relatively short (225-250 days) and calving intervals long (15-18 months).Since these cattle contribute more than 90% of the national production of fresh milk it Was decided, within the context of a project financed by the United Nations Development Programme, to investigate the extent to Which their productivity could be improved.

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Neetoo, Hudaa, D. Goburdhun, A. Ruggoo, S. Pohoroo, A. Pohoroo, and K. Reega. "Understanding the management practices of animal manure and associated risks of transference of bacterial pathogens to crop vegetables." African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development 20, no. 06 (October 31, 2020): 16858–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.94.18800.

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Manure is commonly used in agricultural production in Mauritius,but little is documented on the local management practices. Animal manure, in particular,is a livestock waste that harbors enteric microorganisms which are potentially pathogenic to humans. The objectives of the study were therefore (i) to shed light on the management practices of manure among cattle and poultry farmers (manure producers)and carrot and lettuce growers (manure end-users)and any associated health risks and (ii) to determine the prevalence of human pathogens (diarrheagenic Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes and Clostridium perfringens)in manure collected from farmers, vegetable crops fertilized with manure as well as manure-amended soil(MAS) used in crop cultivation.A survey was conducted through in-depth interviews with16 producers and 36 end-users to gather data on their MMP and their perception of the health risks associated with manure handling. Samples of manure, MAS and vegetables were also microbiologically analyzed to enumerate and/or detect pathogens.Findings revealed that cattle and poultry manure was an important resource for many small-holder vegetable farmers in Mauritius. The manure distributors or end users had no negative perception of the use of untreated manure for vegetable cultivation and were generally unaware of any biosecurity risks arising from the improper handling or subsequent use of untreated manure. Microbiological analyses however showed that 100% of manure samples collected from cattle farms and 58% of the poultry litter samples tested positive for pathogenic E. coli with population ranging from 3.3 to 6.5 Log CFU/g. Manure-borne pathogens were generally undetectable in the analyzed vegetables hence indicating a low risk of food borne infections. However, the systematic presence of pathogenic E. coli in cattle manure and frequent occurrence in poultry litter clearly point to a need for creating greater awareness amongst farmers on the occupational health risks associated with handling of raw or inadequately decomposed manure.This study therefore points to the health risks associated with enteric pathogens present in raw or untreated raw manure in Mauritius.

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Jeewon, Rajesh, Jayesh Ittoo, Devendra Mahadeb, Yasmina Jaufeerally-Fakim, Hong-Kai Wang, and Ai-Rong Liu. "DNA Based Identification and Phylogenetic Characterisation of Endophytic and Saprobic Fungi from Antidesma madagascariense, a Medicinal Plant in Mauritius." Journal of Mycology 2013 (May 28, 2013): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/781914.

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Endophytes are fungi associated with plants without causing symptoms, and they are quite diverse and have enormous potential for production of important secondary metabolites for the pharmaceutical industry. In this study, we report for the first time fungi (both endophytes and saprobes) from Antidesma madagascariense, a medicinal plant in Mauritius, in view of identifying potential candidates for screening of fungi for pharmaceutical importance. In addition the phylogenetic placement of fungi recovered from leaves samples was investigated based on rDNA sequence analysis. Most commonly isolated fungi were related to Aspergillus, Guignardia, Fusarium, Penicillium, Pestalotiopsis, and Trichoderma. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that fungi recovered belong to 5 different fungal lineages (Hypocreaceae, Trichocomaceae, Nectriaceae, Xylariaceae, and Botryosphaeriaceae). DNA data from the ITS regions were reliable in classification of all recovered isolates up to genus level, but identification to an exact species name was not possible at this stage. Despite criticisms pertaining to the use of ITS sequence data in molecular systematics, our approach here provides an opportunity to justify the reliability of ITS sequence data for possible identification and discovering of evolutionary scenarios among isolates that do not sporulate under cultural conditions.

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Usman, Muhammad, Shuo Cheng, and Jeffrey Scott Cross. "Biomass Feedstocks for Liquid Biofuels Production in Hawaii & Tropical Islands: A Review." International Journal of Renewable Energy Development 11, no. 1 (October 18, 2021): 111–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/ijred.2022.39285.

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Many tropical islands, including Aruba, Seychelles, Mauritius, and Pacific Island countries, are entirely dependent on importing fossil fuels to meet their energy demands. Due to global warming, improving energy use efficiency and developing regionally available renewable energy resources are necessary to reduce carbon emissions. This review analyzed and identified biomass feedstocks to produce liquid biofuels targeting tropical islands, particularly focusing on Hawaii as a case study. Transportation and energy generation sectors consume 25.5% and 11.6%, respectively, of Hawaii's imported fossil fuels. Various nonedible feedstocks with information on their availability, production, and average yields of oils, fiber, sugars, and lipid content for liquid biofuels production are identified to add value to the total energy mix. The available biomass conversion technologies and production costs are summarized. In addition, a section on potentially using sewage sludge to produce biodiesel is also included. Based on a comparative analysis of kamani, croton, pongamia, jatropha, energycane, Leucaena hybrid, gliricidia, and eucalyptus feedstock resources, this study proposes that Hawaii and other similar tropical regions can potentially benefit from growing and producing economical liquid biofuels locally, especially for the transportation and electricity generation sectors

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Usman, Muhammad, Shuo Cheng, and Jeffrey Scott Cross. "Biomass Feedstocks for Liquid Biofuels Production in Hawaii & Tropical Islands: A Review." International Journal of Renewable Energy Development 11, no. 1 (October 18, 2021): 111–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/ijred.0.39285.

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Many tropical islands, including Aruba, Seychelles, Mauritius, and Pacific Island countries, are entirely dependent on importing fossil fuels to meet their energy demands. Due to global warming, improving energy use efficiency and developing regionally available renewable energy resources are necessary to reduce carbon emissions. This review analyzed and identified biomass feedstocks to produce liquid biofuels targeting tropical islands, particularly focusing on Hawaii as a case study. Transportation and energy generation sectors consume 25.5% and 11.6%, respectively, of Hawaii's imported fossil fuels. Various nonedible feedstocks with information on their availability, production, and average yields of oils, fiber, sugars, and lipid content for liquid biofuels production are identified to add value to the total energy mix. The available biomass conversion technologies and production costs are summarized. In addition, a section on potentially using sewage sludge to produce biodiesel is also included. Based on a comparative analysis of kamani, croton, pongamia, jatropha, energycane, Leucaena hybrid, gliricidia, and eucalyptus feedstock resources, this study proposes that Hawaii and other similar tropical regions can potentially benefit from growing and producing economical liquid biofuels locally, especially for the transportation and electricity generation sectors

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Lionnet, Fran¸oise. "BOOK REVIEW: ed. J. P. Little and Roger Little.BLACK ACCENTS: WRITING IN FRENCH FROM AFRICA, MAURITIUS AND THE CARIBBEAN. London: Grant and Cutler, 1997." Research in African Literatures 31, no. 3 (September 2000): 182–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2000.31.3.182.

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Ramjane, Hafsah, Theeshan Bahorun, Brinda Ramasawmy, Deena Ramful-Baboolall, Navindra Boodia, Okezie I. Aruoma, and Vidushi S. Neergheen. "Exploration of the Potential of Terrestrial and Marine Biodiversity for the Development of Local Nutraceutical Products: A Case for Mauritius." American Journal of Biopharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 1 (November 8, 2021): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/ajbps_3_2021.

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Nutraceuticals and natural health products globally represent one of the fastest growing sectors of research and development leading to novel products intended for disease risk reduction and human health promotion. The global nutraceutical market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.3% from 2020 to 2027 to reach USD 722.5 billion by 2027. There is a need to respond to this sector by exploring the local resources to target the production of innovative products from plant/marine biofactors with high prospects for commercial ventures. This paper explores the nutraceutical potentials enshrined in biodiversity values in a small island state in view to promote sustainable agricultural development to facilitate available resources for the development of regimen for the management of health and disease and in essence, pharmacotherapy. The reported phytochemical composition and pharmacological activities, of the terrestrial flora and marine organisms with high propensity for development and production of nutraceutical products will be discussed. Bioactive phytochemicals encompassing the immensely diverse groups of phenolic acids, flavonoids, terpenoids, alkaloids, possess therapeutic virtues including anti-diabetic, antihypertensive, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory attributes, all of which are highly relevant to the budding nutraceutical industry.

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Brixius, Dorit. "From ethnobotany to emancipation: Slaves, plant knowledge, and gardens on eighteenth-century Isle de France." History of Science 58, no. 1 (April 10, 2019): 51–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0073275319835431.

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This essay examines the relationship between slavery and plant knowledge for cultivational activities and medicinal purposes on Isle de France (Mauritius) in the second half of the eighteenth century. It builds on recent scholarship to argue for the significance of slaves in the acquisition of plant material and related knowledge in pharmaceutical, acclimatization, and private gardens on the French colonial island. I highlight the degree to which French colonial officials relied on slaves’ ethnobotanical knowledge but neglected to include such information in their published works. Rather than seeking to explore the status of such knowledge within European frameworks of natural history as an endpoint of knowledge production, this essay calls upon us to think about the plant knowledge that slaves possessed for its practical implementations in the local island context. Both female and male slaves’ plant-based knowledge enriched – even initiated – practices of cultivation and preparation techniques of plants for nourishment and medicinal uses. Here, cultivational knowledge and skills determined a slave’s hierarchical rank. As the case of the slave gardener Rama and his family reveals, plant knowledge sometimes offered slaves opportunities for social mobility and, even though on extremely rare occasions, enabled them to become legally free.

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BRITTON, C. "Review. Black Accents: Writing in French from Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean. Little, J. P. and Roger Little (eds)." French Studies 53, no. 2 (April 1, 1999): 240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/53.2.240.

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Robinet, Tony, Eric Feunteun, Philippe Keith, Gérard Marquet, Jean-Michel Olivier, Elodie Réveillac, and Pierre Valade. "Eel community structure, fluvial recruitment of Anguilla marmorata and indication for a weak local production of spawners from rivers of Réunion and Mauritius islands." Environmental Biology of Fishes 78, no. 2 (November 29, 2006): 93–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-006-9042-3.

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Anggraini, Citra Dewi Nur, and Nurlaily Nurlaily. "Taḥlīlu al Insāniyyati fī Riwāyati al Faḍīlati li Muṣṭafā Luṭfī al Manfaluṭī (Dirāsatun Taḥlīliyyatun fī ‘Ilmi al Ijtimā’i al Adabī)." Al-Uslub: Journal of Arabic Linguistic and Literature 6, no. 01 (July 19, 2022): 78–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.30631/al-uslub.v6i01.126.

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Al-fadhilah novel is an adaptation of an original novel in French. The novel presents life on Mauritius island, Africa. The value of humanism presented in the novel is a criticism that alludes to colonial Europe at that time. This study aims to analyze the value of humanism in the novel. The research method used in descriptive qualitative with the type of library research. Data obtained through novel, internet and other sources. In this study, the researcher obtained some data from the novel. Among them a re two data in the literary aspect which is a picture of life at that time. The values of humanism in the novel are cooperation, mutual help, social solidarity, sympathy, kindness and mutual advice.

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Chatenet, M., C. Delage, M. Ripolles, M. Irey, B. E. L. Lockhart, and P. Rott. "Detection of Sugarcane yellow leaf virus in Quarantine and Production of Virus-free Sugarcane by Apical Meristem Culture." Plant Disease 85, no. 11 (November 2001): 1177–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis.2001.85.11.1177.

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Sugarcane yellow leaf virus (SCYLV) was detected for the first time in 1996 in the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) sugarcane quarantine at Montpellier by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in varieties from Brazil, Florida, Mauritius, and Réunion. Between 1997 and 2000, the virus was found by RT-PCR and/or tissue-blot immunoassay (TBIA) in additional varieties from Barbados, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Taiwan, suggesting a worldwide distribution of the pathogen. An excellent correlation was observed between results obtained for the two diagnostic techniques. However, even though only a few false negative results were obtained by either technique, both are now used to detect SCYLV in CIRAD's sugarcane quarantine in Montpellier. The pathogen was detected by TBIA or RT-PCR in all leaves of sugarcane foliage, but the highest percentage of infected vascular bundles was found in the top leaves. The long hot water treatment (soaking of cuttings in water at 25°C for 2 days and then at 50°C for 3 h) was ineffective in eliminating SCYLV from infected plants. Sugarcane varieties from various origins were grown in vitro by apical bud culture and apical meristem culture, and the latter proved to be the most effective method for producing SCYLV-free plants.

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Hegyi, Z., Z. Zsubori-Tóth, J. Pintér, and C. Marton. "Biogas production from silage maize hybrids." Acta Agronomica Hungarica 59, no. 3 (September 1, 2011): 223–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/aagr.59.2011.3.5.

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Experiments have been underway in Martonvásár for many years to develop leafy silage hybrids, which have a greater aboveground mass than conventional silage hybrids. The best hybrids for biogas production would be those that produce a large quantity of biomass and are rich in starch. The chief characteristic of leafy hybrids is that they have more leaves than normal hybrids. Due to this enhanced leaf area above the ear, the vegetative period of leafy genotypes is shorter, while the grain-filling period is longer, which has a positive effect on both yield and grain quality. The results of the present experiment show that during the anaerobic fermentation of the silage, leafy hybrids produced more biogas (640 l per 1000 g dry matter) than conventional hybrids (606 l per 1000 g dry matter). There were no significant differences between the methane contents of the leafy and non-leafy hybrids tested in the experiment. A strong positive correlation was found between biogas yield and the starch content of the silage, and a moderate positive correlation between biogas yield and the sugar content. The correlation between biogas yield and the lignin and protein contents was negative, in accordance with other literary data.

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Shivagami, G., and T. Rajendra Prasad. "Efficacy of Foreign Direct Investment in India - An Evaluation." ComFin Research 9, no. 2 (April 1, 2021): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/commerce.v9i2.3835.

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Foreign investment plays a noteworthy role in all walks of development. Foreign Direct Investment bridges the gap between saving and investment. In the process of economic development, foreign capital helps to cover the domestic saving constraint and provide access to the superior technology that promotes efficiency and productivity of the existing production capacity and generate new production opportunity. The perceptible growth of India’s GDP, particularly in the past few decades has lifted millions of people from sever poverty on the one hand and made the country a conducive ground for foreign direct investment on the other hand. A recent UNCTAD survey projected India as the second most important FDI destination after China for transnational corporations during 2010-2015. Services, telecommunication, construction activities, computer software & hardware and automobile are major sectors, which attracted higher inflows of FDI in India. Few nations such as Singapore, Mauritius, the US, and the UK were among the leading suppliers of FDI in India. This paper intends to examine the degree of global countries’ participation, the sector-wise inflow of foreign capital and the recent initiatives of the government policy towards foreign direct investment.

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Kruger, Loren. ""Stories from the Production Line": Modernism and Modernization in the GDR Production Play." Theatre Journal 46, no. 4 (December 1994): 489. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3209072.

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Lanzendörfer, Tim. "How to Read the ‘Literary’ in the Literary Market." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 69, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2020-2026.

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Abstract This essay argues that under contemporary capitalism, all literary production is, at first approximation, commodity production. This has consequences for our understanding of the work of literary studies. We are no longer able to easily recur to preformed theories of the ‘literary’ as a category at least in some way exempt from extrinsic pressures. Attention to the ‘literary market’ remains superficial when it insists on paying attention chiefly to so-called literary fiction on the understanding that it has prima facie higher claims to our attention than popular genre fiction—it does not. In fact, as this essay argues, appreciation of the thorough commodification of art under capitalism asks us to take seriously the need to break with our categories; to insist on the primacy of interpretative attention in determining what kinds of fiction we study.

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Chico, Tita. "From Fleece to Fleets; or, Wool and the Production of Wonder." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 32, no. 1 (October 1, 2019): 101–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.32.1.101.

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Sultan, Riad. "Fishing location choice and risk preferences among small fishers – Implications for fisheries management policies." African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 15, no. 2 (June 30, 2020): 140–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.53936/afjare.2020.15(2).10.

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The study provides evidence for how risk preferences determine fishing location choices by artisanal fishers on the south-west coast of the island of Mauritius. Risk preference is modelled using a random linear utility framework defined over mean-standard deviation space. The study estimates expected revenue and revenue risk from the Just and Pope production function and applies the random parameter logit model to account for fisher-specific and location-specific characteristics. The findings are consistent with utility-maximising fishers, whereby the likelihood to choose a fishing location is positively associated with expected revenue and negatively related to revenue risk. Distance from fishing station to fishing grounds affects the choice of fishing location negatively. The estimated model allows heterogeneity in risk preferences and concludes that 51% of fishers can be classified as risk averse, 31% as risk seekers and the remaining as risk neutral. The study also estimates the degree of substitutability and complementarity between fishing locations based on the risk preferences of fishers and discusses the relevance of this for fisheries management policy.

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Shea, Daniel P. "“Abortions of the Market”: Production and Reproduction inNews from Nowhere." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 32, no. 2 (June 2010): 153–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2010.493447.

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Andolfi, Ilaria. "An Ambiguous Literary Genre." Mnemosyne 70, no. 2 (February 20, 2017): 183–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12342135.

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the origins of early Greek mythography, exemplarily represented by Hecataeus of Miletus and Acusilaus of Argos. The paucity of verbatim quotations and a total lack of information about the publication of their prose works and their audience makes it difficult to frame them within a specific literary genre. Despite that, a better understanding of their cultural milieu could help us approach their literary production in a new way. What arises from this investigation is how unprofitable it is to rely upon a rigid distinction among the production of early prose writers who clearly share a common goal and, to some extent, a similar communicative strategy.

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Horváth, Géza S. "From Phenomenology to Literary Anthropology: Bakhtin’s Grotesque as Poetics of the Production of Meaning." Dostoevsky Journal 17, no. 1 (November 14, 2016): 5–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23752122-01701002.

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In the context of Bakhtin’s preoccupation with corporality, one of his best known concepts is that of the grotesque body. The ‘open’ and grotesque body coincides with the generation and invention of the new word-body, the word in action, separated from the old word-body. Moreover, the transgression in the grotesque has to be considered as a categorical infringement, as a violation of the bounderies between body and word, subject and object, external and internal. Bakhtin’s paper on Content, Material and Form… contains the first articulation of the concept of ambiguity (double body, double word and ambivalent meaning) in Bakhtin’s theory of discourse. His thoughts on the corporeality [тeлecнocть] of the act of reception, and on the author’s and reader’s direct presence prepares and supports the – non-hermeneutic, non-semiotic – contemporary theories of the literary text.

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Hacohen, Ran. "Literary Transfer between Peripheral Languages: A Production of Culture Perspective." Meta 59, no. 2 (November 21, 2014): 297–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1027477ar.

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Literary translations from Hebrew into Dutch and vice versa between 1991 and 2010 are examined as a test case for cultural transfer between two peripheral languages, using a production of culture perspective (Peterson and Anand 2004). The findings show 138 Dutch books translated from Hebrew against 52 Hebrew books translated from Dutch. The data are analyzed by genre, translator’s productivity, and number of books per author. The analysis reveals that both directions were similar in distribution of genres, but differed significantly in translator’s productivity (the productivity of the average Dutch translator is more than twice as high as that of his or her Hebrew counterpart) and in the number of translated titles per author (twice as many in the Dutch market). The discussion traces these differences to the different structure of the translation labour market in Israel as compared to that of the Netherlands and Belgium and to the dominance of Dutch state subsidy and Flemish Community subsidy in both directions of the transfer, however with a different policy of subsidy in each direction. It seems that significant conclusions can be reached by examining such factors as size and distribution of the corpus on the backdrop of labour conditions and state subsidy.

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Souza, Roberto Acízelo de, and José Luís Jobim. "BRAZILIAN LITERARY CRITICISM AND HISTORIOGRAPHY." Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada 22, no. 41 (December 2020): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2596-304x20202241rac.

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Abstract: In Brazil literary studies, after scant manifestations in the colonial period, represented by the activity of literary academies founded in the 18th century only really expanded in the course of the 19th century. National literary production grew in quantity and quality, as did literary studies, which, on the one hand, were demanded by this production- that, after all, needed to be studied and evaluated -, but, on other hand, stimulated this creativity, as they established as a criterion of value the alignment of fiction, poetry and dramaturgy with the nationalist agenda. As a result, from the 1820s until the 1880s, literary studies in Brazil underwent a period of expansion and diversification. If in the 1800s literary education was conducted at high-school level, from the 1930s onwards university courses in literatures began to be established in Brazil. In this paper we will provide a short introduction to Brazilian literary criticism and historiography from its very beginnings to the present time.

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Rauer, Christine. "Early Mercian Text Production: Authors, Dialects, and Reputations." Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 77, no. 3-4 (October 19, 2017): 541–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340091.

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Abstract There are suggestions that King Alfred’s legendary literary renaissance may have been a reaction to the efforts of the neighbouring kingdom of Mercia. According to Asser, Alfred assembled a group of literary scholars from this rival Mercian tradition at his court. But it is not clear what early literary activities these scholars could have been involved in to justify their pre-Alfredian reputation. This article tries to outline the historical and literary evidence for early Mercian text production, and the importance of this ‘other’ early literary corpus. What is our current knowledge of Mercian text production and the political and literary relationship of Mercia with Canterbury? What was the relationship of Alfred’s educational movement with its Mercian forerunner? Why is modern scholarship better informed about Alfred’s movement than any Mercian rival culture? If our current knowledge of this area is insufficient for the writing of a literary history of Mercia, a provisional list of texts and bibliography, published electronically for convenient updating, may prove useful in the meantime.

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Classen, Albrecht. "Teaching Medieval Literature and Culture in Contemporary Universities Challenges and Opportunities from Past to Present. Exemplary Case Studies of the Roman de Silence and Mauritius von Craûn." Research Journal of Education, no. 82 (June 20, 2022): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/rje.82.42.49.

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In face of an ever-changing academic framework, all scholars working with pre-modern literature, art history, philosophy, are currently deeply challenged to explain and justify their fields of investigation. More and more foreign and language departments in the United States decide to cut out the Middle Ages and the early modern period as irrelevant to their teaching and research portfolio. Nevertheless, medieval research continues strongly, as the wealth of relevant publications indicates, coupled with energetic conferences, symposia, and other activities. But there are hardly any academic job opportunities, which make it harder and harder to convince graduate students to pursue a degree in medieval literature, for instance. The present study does not promise to offer a panacea against this general malaise, but will indicate, through the close reading of two literary examples, the enormous potentialities of this primary material to attract students and to provide meaningful, relevant, and perhaps even transformative seminars on the undergraduate and graduate level.

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Kim, Jimin, Seongwon Im, Alsayed Mostafa, Om Prakash, and Dong-Hoon Kim. "Analysis of Biohydrogen Production Potential from Organic Wastes Generated in Korea." Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers 43, no. 9 (September 30, 2021): 591–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.4491/ksee.2021.43.9.591.

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Objectives : To mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, our country is trying to replace fossil fuel to hydrogen (H2). H2 has higher energy yield (122 MJ/kg) than other energy sources (natural gas, coal, etc.), and is considered a clean fuel that produces only water upon combustion. The water electrolysis using renewable energy is one of the green-H2 producing methods, but its unstable characteristics depending on weather condition impede its practical application. Therefore, to establish green-H2 society, the use of waste and biomass is essential to fulfil the demand.Methods : In this study, we estimated the biohydrogen potential of organic solid wastes: food waste, livestock manure, and sewage sludge, which are the main feedstock of domestic biogas plant. For the H2 generation process, dark fermentation (DF) and steam biogas reforming (SBR) were considered.Results and Discussion : The potential amount of H2 through DF and SBR was 44,000 ton/y and 675,000 ton/y, respectively. The GHG reducing potential was estimated to be 5 million tons CO2-eq/year, but it can be lowered down to 2 million tons CO2-eq/year, considering the energy consumption during H2 generation process. Among the energy potential of produced H2, 7% and 60% is required for H2 production in DF and SBR, respectively.Conclusion The expected biohydrogen production was 718,000 ton/y which can account for about 14% of the domestic H2 production target in 2040 (526 million tons). The main source was livestock manure (86%), and minor fraction was from food waste (10%), and sewage sludge (4%). The GHG reducing potential was estimated to be 2 million tons CO2-eq/year, considering the energy consumption during H2 generation process.

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Rusňák, Radoslav. "From Literature “about Children” to Literature “for Children”." Libri et liberi 7, no. 2 (May 3, 2019): 261–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.7.2.5.

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The development of children’s literature in Slovakia was significantly influenced by the historical milestone of the end of the First World War (WWI). The new cultural conditions that occurred in Slovakia after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the foundation of Czechoslovakia created a suitable environment for the development of cultural institutions such as the Slovak Association, libraries, publishing houses and children’s magazines such as Slniečko [Little Sun]. After 1918, the literary production for children and young adults (YAs) began to take two distinct directions – one more traditional (didactic-moralising) and the other more artistic. The then artistic current in Slovak children’s literature promoted literary production for children and integrated it in the domain of art. The literary works of these authors can be further differentiated by identifying optimistic, realist and synthesising concepts of childhood. The post-war years in Slovakia can therefore be described as the beginning of the artistic integration of children’s literature into the system of national literature, which was accomplished in the 1960s.

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Mostert, Diane, Emmanuel Wicker, Mignon M. de Jager, Saif M. Al Kaabi, Wayne T. O’Neill, Suzy Perry, Chunyu Li, et al. "A Polyphasic Approach Reveals Novel Genotypes and Updates the Genetic Structure of the Banana Fusarium Wilt Pathogen." Microorganisms 10, no. 2 (January 25, 2022): 269. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10020269.

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Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) is a soil-borne fungus that causes Fusarium wilt, a destructive plant disease that has resulted in devastating economic losses to banana production worldwide. The fungus has a complex evolutionary history and taxonomic repute and consists of three pathogenic races and at least 24 vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs). Surveys conducted in Asia, Africa, the Sultanate of Oman and Mauritius encountered isolates of F. oxysporum pathogenic to banana that were not compatible to any of the known Foc VCGs. Genetic relatedness between the undescribed and known Foc VCGs were determined using a multi-gene phylogeny and diversity array technology (DArT) sequencing. The presence of putative effector genes, the secreted in xylem (SIX) genes, were also determined. Fourteen novel Foc VCGs and 17 single-member VCGs were identified. The multi-gene tree was congruent with the DArT-seq phylogeny and divided the novel VCGs into three clades. Clustering analysis of the DArT-seq data supported the separation of Foc isolates into eight distinct clusters, with the suite of SIX genes mostly conserved within these clusters. Results from this study indicates that Foc is more diverse than hitherto assumed.

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Julien, Martin. "From There to Here: Canadian Stage’s Production of London Road." TDR/The Drama Review 59, no. 3 (September 2015): 161–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00479.

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The award-winning verbatim musical London Road received critical praise and audience interest when it was first produced in London by the National Theatre in 2011. What might a transplanted British verbatim concoction tell a post-colonial Canadian audience about their own localized concerns and prejudices?

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Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun. "Towards a Typology of Literary Translation: Drama Translation Science." Meta 33, no. 4 (September 30, 2002): 485–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/004168ar.

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Abstract Based on the ideas of my two edited books The Languages of Theatre (Problems in the Translation and Transposition of Drama) and Page to Stage (Theatre as Translation), this paper attempts to arrive at a typology of translation which deals with both the translation of drama from one language and culture into another and with the various aspects of transposing the dramatic script on to the stage or, vice versa, the creation of drama through processes of theatre production. The focus is on those aspects of drama translation which are different from other forms of literary translation, e.g. on problems of semiotics (i.e. translating non-verbal signs in drama). The paper concludes with recommendations for future developments in drama translation research, including the production process, Le. the transposition from the written (translated) drama to the performed work of art, and the conceptualisation of the production process.

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Amer, Sahar. "Reading Medieval French Literature from a Global Perspective." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 130, no. 2 (March 2015): 367–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2015.130.2.367.

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Only in the last decade has the field of medieval french literature recognized the need for a critical gaze that looks outside France and beyond the persistent Eurocentric accounts of medieval French literary history. These accounts long viewed medieval French literary production primarily in relation to the Latin, Celtic, and Provençal traditions. My research over the last twenty years has called for a revisionist history of literature and of empires and has highlighted the fact that throughout the Middle Ages France entertained “inter-imperial” literary relations—not only with European traditions but also with extra-European cultures, specifically with the Islamicate world.

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Yu, Jinquan, and Wenqian Zhang. "From Gaomi to Nobel." Archiv orientální 89, no. 2 (September 30, 2021): 261–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.89.2.261-282.

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The global translation field is characterized by a core-periphery structure. The translation of Chinese literature into English falls into the category of translation flows from the periphery to the core. Combining Bourdieu’s field and capital with world literature studies, this article explores the factors impinging on the production, circulation and consecration of Chinese literature in the English literary field with the English translation of Nobel Laureate Mo Yan’s fiction as an illustrative case study. By so doing, the article shows that the logic of market dominant in the English publishing field plays a decisive role in the production and circulation of Chinese literature in the English world. The translation agents such as translators, publishers and editors act as gatekeepers in the selection process and facilitators in the consecration process. With the analysis of the case of Mo Yan, the article argues that the success and canonization of his fiction in the English world relies not only on the aesthetic and commercial stakes of its publishing context, but also on the promotion and consecration via the joint efforts of the English publishers, the editors, the literary agent and Howard Goldblatt who possess a multiplicity of capital in their own fields.

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Deckert, Mikołaj, and Rafał Augustyn. "From film reception to translation production: Suboptimal visual-verbal coding." International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research 14, no. 2 (July 29, 2022): 84–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.12807/ti.114202.2022.a06.

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Typically, translation is conceived of as a process in which the translator is presented with source elements to be rendered into the target language. In this paper we focus on a decision-making phase that is taken for granted in the above formulation but emerges in the context of audiovisual translation, where the source material is semiotically complex. That phase consists in deciding whether certain source elements are to be translated. Language in film is canonically thought of as dialogues or monologues that are delivered orally, and it comes as no surprise that research into the translator’s decisions has been mostly concerned with this mode of communication. An under-examined case is when rather than being spoken, language is shown on the screen. As is argued in this paper, such scenarios have rich meaning-making potential and clearly deserve scholarly attention. The paper has two main objectives. The first one is to offer insights into how different types of visual verbal coding (VVC) function in film, with an emphasis on the implications for the translator’s decisions. The second objective is to offer a methodological perspective. To that end, the reported research into VVC is two-pronged. First, we offer an introspection-based qualitative analysis of a representative selection of VVC cases. That line of inquiry is then combined with input obtained from a reception experiment.

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Post da Silveira, Amanda. "Retrieving L2 word stress from orthography: Evidence from word naming and cross-modal priming." Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 73, no. 1 (January 31, 2020): 409–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2020v73n1p409.

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In this paper we investigated how L1 word stress affects L2 word naming for cognates and non-cognates in two lexical stress languages, Brazilian Portuguese (BP, L1) and American English (AE, L2). In Experiment 1, BP-AE bilinguals named a mixed list of disyllabic moderate frequency words in L1 (Portuguese) and L2 (English). In Experiment 2, Portuguese-English bilinguals named English (L2) disyllabic target words presented simultaneously with auditory Portuguese (L1) disyllabic primes. It is concluded that word stress has a task-dependent role to play in bilingual word naming and must be incorporated in bilingual models of lexical production and lexical perception and reading aloud models.

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