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Dashti, Abdulmohsen A. "A Consonant Shift in Kuwaitis’ Speech: Challenging the Bedouin Vs Sedentary hypothesis The case of [ʧ]." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7, no. 1 (December 15, 2017): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.1p.12.
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In light of sociolinguist phonological change, the following study investigates the shift of [ʧ] to [k] sound in the speech of Kuwaitis and argues against the Bedouin/ Sedentary distinction. The main hypothesis is twofold: first the shift seems to be driven not by the differences between the sedentary and Bedouin varieties, but by the widespread of the English language as a prestige form and by the recent change of Kuwaitis’ lifestyle; second, the shift is not totally in the direction of [k], but rather in the direction of a lexical replacement by either English loanwords, classical Arabic, or other Arab dialects. To test this hypothesis, 130 informants were informally interviewed. 503 tokens were collected and were examined across gender, age, level of education. Their speech was phonetically transcribed and accordingly was quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed. Results indicate that the [ʧ] variant is undergoing change and that the social parameters and the significant social changes, that Kuwait has undergone recently, have triggered this linguistic shift.
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Settu, Rajalakshmi, Jayanthi Balakrishnan, Sarathi Kannan Dhavamani, Manoj Srinivas Ravi, Elangovan Namasivayam, Indra Arulselvi Padiksan, and Ravishankar Palanisamy. "Genetic diversity analysis and metabolite profiling of pharmaceutical value Indigenous rice varieties of Tamil Nadu (Oryza sativa Linn.)." Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology 23, no. 10 (October 12, 2021): 447–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.51201/jusst/21/10756.
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Evaluation of local indigenous medicinal rice (Oryza sativa Linn.) varieties using molecular and metabolic profiling plays dynamic role for unravelling the genetic variability and restorative bio actives. In the present study, 18 screened random decamer (RAPD) markers were used to analyze genetic diversity and relationship among 25 indigenous landraces and 1 commercial rice varieties (White ponni), and GC-MS profiling of phylogenetic clusters positioned 4 random indigenous rice varieties and 1 White ponni rice were documented for exploring bioactive metabolites. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis of twenty-six rice varieties of Tamil Nadu divulges significant genetic differentiation. The primers produced total of 92 bands with size ranges from 100-8500bp out of 74 were polymorphic bands indicating 80% polymorphism. The mean values of RAPD for polymorphism information content (PIC) of 0.268, effective multiple ratio (EMR) of 23.38, marker index (MI) of 7.39 and the resolving power (Rp) of 4.34. The primer OPA-02, OPD-08, OPF-13 produced maximum number of bands (8), OPAA-07 produced minimum number of band (2). The UPGMA dendrogram were constructed based on Jaccard’s similarity coefficients. The dendrogram resolved the indigenous rice varieties into 3 main clusters and 3 monoclades ranged from 0.467 to 0.860, commercial rice variety shows marginal ungrouped position of 1. In the 3-main clustering, based GC-MS profilling (methanol and acetone rice bran extracts) of Karuppu Kavuni, Karuthakar, Kottara samba, Kaivara samba and ungrouped position of White ponni revealed 88 distinctive bioactive metabolites. And profiling results substantiate that the traditional rice varieties hold promising therapeutic metabolites for sedentary lifestyle disorders.
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Moens, Maurice, and Yunliang Peng. "Host resistance and tolerance to migratory plant-parasitic nematodes." Nematology 5, no. 2 (2003): 145–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156854103767139653.
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AbstractPlant-parasitic nematodes are divided according to their feeding strategy into three major groups: sedentary endoparasites, migratory endoparasites and ectoparasites. Compared to what is known about sedentary endoparasitic nematode species, resistant and tolerant relationships between the nematodes from the latter two groups and their hosts are much less documented. However, methods for screening and evaluation of the resistance and tolerance of plants to migratory plant-parasitic nematodes have been well developed and sources of resistance and tolerance to these nematodes have been found. Advances have been made in breeding resistance to migratory plant-parasitic nematodes in rice, alfalfa, banana, pine trees, grape, woody fruits and other crops. Although accessions immune to stem, leaf and bud nematodes are found quite frequently, host resistance to migratory root-parasitic nematodes has been detected less frequently and generally only partly reduces nematode multiplication. Host tolerance to migratory nematodes is important even for resistant varieties and therefore is gaining attention. An insufficient degree of resistance and tolerance, their variability with the environment, and their linkage to undesired agricultural or horticultural characters are commonly observed. Polygenic bases for plant resistance and tolerance to migratory nematodes have been demonstrated by genetic and biochemical observations and make breeding even more complicated than that for resistance to sedentary plant-parasitic nematodes. These factors, with the presence of different nematode species in the field and community and population differences in pathogenicity, hinder the availability of host resistance and tolerance and offer a big challenge.
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Adamou, Evangelia. "Bilingual speech and language ecology in Greek Thrace: Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish." Language in Society 39, no. 2 (April 2010): 147–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404510000035.
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AbstractThis article examines the influence of language ecology on bilingual speech. It is based on first-hand data from two previously undocumented varieties of Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish in Greek Thrace; in both cases Turkish is an important language for the community's identity. This analysis shows how the Romani-Turkish “fused lect” was produced by intensive and extensive bilingualism through colloquial contact with the trade language, Turkish. In addition, it shows how semi-sedentary Pomak speakers had limited, institutional contact with Turkish, resulting in more traditional codeswitching and emblematic lexical borrowings. (Language contact, bilingual speech, fused lect, language ecology, Pomak, Romani, Turkish, Greece)*
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Alajmi, Nasser M. "Regional and Sociolinguistic Variation of Personal Pronouns in Dialects of Najdi Arabic." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 14, no. 5 (September 1, 2023): 1313–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1405.19.
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This study examines the regional and sociolinguistic variation in the paradigms of personal pronouns, independent and dependent, in Najdi dialects. The regional dialects are Central, Qassim, and Northern. The social dialects are sub-varieties of the Central dialect: Hamadan, Hawazin, and Sedentary. The data was collected using the sociolinguistic interview of 25 speakers. It was found that there were more variations in the personal pronoun forms than what have been reported in the literature. When comparing forms with Standard Arabic, the Central dialects are more conservative in the number of changes to the forms. However, Qassim and Northern have retained gender distinction in plural forms while Central dialects did not. This study introduced forms of personal pronouns that were never mentioned in the literature.
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Avni, Raz, Moran Nave, Omer Barad, Kobi Baruch, Sven O. Twardziok, Heidrun Gundlach, Iago Hale, et al. "Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication." Science 357, no. 6346 (July 6, 2017): 93–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aan0032.
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Wheat (Triticum spp.) is one of the founder crops that likely drove the Neolithic transition to sedentary agrarian societies in the Fertile Crescent more than 10,000 years ago. Identifying genetic modifications underlying wheat’s domestication requires knowledge about the genome of its allo-tetraploid progenitor, wild emmer (T. turgidum ssp. dicoccoides). We report a 10.1-gigabase assembly of the 14 chromosomes of wild tetraploid wheat, as well as analyses of gene content, genome architecture, and genetic diversity. With this fully assembled polyploid wheat genome, we identified the causal mutations in Brittle Rachis 1 (TtBtr1) genes controlling shattering, a key domestication trait. A study of genomic diversity among wild and domesticated accessions revealed genomic regions bearing the signature of selection under domestication. This reference assembly will serve as a resource for accelerating the genome-assisted improvement of modern wheat varieties.
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Bagchi, Torit Baran, Sarangadhar Nayak, Monalisha Biswal, Soumya Kumar Sahoo, and Awadhesh Kumar. "Rice grain quality and starch digestibility- desired traits for evaluating rice varieties." Oryza-An International Journal on Rice 58, Special (April 22, 2021): 208–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.35709/ory.2021.58.spl.9.
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Rice grain quality is the most important factor for evaluation of a variety as well as millers, consumers and farmer's point of view. It includes physico-chemical, nutritional and sensory qualities. The consumers of India and other south east Asian countries prefer medium to high amylose content (AC) rice due to their non-stickiness properties of boiled rice but in many Asian countries, waxy rice (having low AC) mainly preferred. The colour of rice grain may be white, purple, red and black; which are mainly associated with pericarp or bran layers of the whole grain. The bran contains most of the phytochemicals like oils, antioxidants, minerals, proteins, vitamins and crude fibers in higher concentration than white endosperm. Pigmented rice is generally rich in nutritional compounds as compared to white one but those are unpopular among the farmers because of many undesirable physiological and agronomic characteristics. Sensory qualities like colour, texture, pasting properties, aroma are essential for consumers as per their preference and acceptance. As rice grain is mainly composed by starch, hydrolyzed by digestive enzymes and converted into glucose which is the major energy source for various metabolic functions. After fulfilling the body energy requirement, extra calories from starch are stored as fats or glycogen for later use. Therefore, overeating food containing rice with sedentary lifestyle potentially leads to some health issues, such as type-II diabetes, obesity and colon diseases in long term particularly in Asian countries. Various biochemical factors affect the starch digestibility and Glycemic index (GI) of a food or its products. These factors are resistant starch, AC and phytic acid which lowers the starch digestibility by various ways and have been negatively correlated with GI value. Now-a-days quality assessment of rice grain in terms of its nutritional as well as physico-chemical parameters is gaining prime importance gradually.
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Kozminska, Kinga, and Zhu Hua. "“Dobra polska mowa”: monoglot ideology, multilingual reality and Polish organisations in the UK." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2021, no. 269 (May 1, 2021): 73–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-0010.
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Abstract This article examines the tension between multilingual reality of migrant life and monoglot standard ideology in Polish grassroots organisations in the UK. Drawing on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork from 2017 to 2019, we show that while flexible multilingual practices characterise the community’s multilingual reality, a preference for monolingual standard Polish exists in community activities and online profiles. We argue that, through common orientation to the denotational code and national identity, the organisations give preference to language rather than the speech community of the immediate surroundings and attempt to create a representation of a timeless unified Polish community in line with the static framework of the European nation-state that promotes linguistic, cultural and racial purity. While advocating sedentary, permanent and classed images of migration and integration into British society, the organisations marginalise uses of other language varieties and erase observed historical, class and regional differences within the community.
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Sriharitha, Ambala. "A Gentle Cure with Homoeopathy Through Individualisation, Anal Fissure: A Review & An Acute Case Report." International Journal of Research and Review 10, no. 7 (July 28, 2023): 934–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.202307106.
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In this modern era, life style diseases are commonly encountered in daily clinical practice. Sedentary life styles, lack of proper exercise, low intake of dietary fibre and water, stress and emotional factors, all these causes make a person prone to different varieties of gastrointestinal disorders. Constipation, haemorrhoids, Fissures, bleeding per rectum are most common lower GIT disorders that are seen in our daily OPDS. This article reviews the most common anorectal disorder, anal fissure. Even though anal fissure is not a major life-threatening disease, the unbearable pain in anus, because of which patient presents himself to the doctor for consultation, advice and treatment. Homoeopathy offers the safe, rigour, effective and permanent treatment, for such cases, and prevents recurrence. The patient explains different types of pain sensations which are to be given high importance in homoeopathy for selection of similimum. Keywords: Homoeopathy, Anal Fissure, Lac Defloratum, Peculiar sensation, Individualisation
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Mierczak, Karina, and Anna Garus-Pakowska. "An Overview of Apple Varieties and the Importance of Apple Consumption in the Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases—A Narrative Review." Nutrients 16, no. 19 (September 29, 2024): 3307. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu16193307.
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Non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes, and asthma are increasingly common due to factors like industrialization, urbanization, fast-paced life, stress, sedentary lifestyle, and unbalanced diet in the 21st century. These chronic conditions are a global epidemic, being among the top causes of death worldwide. Preventing these diseases through a nutritious diet is crucial, and scientific studies suggest that appropriate fruit intake, particularly apples, can lower the risk of various health issues. Apples, rich in bioactive compounds, vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber, offer numerous health benefits. Regular consumption of apples helps reduce the risk of atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, heart attacks, and diabetes, and also provides anti-asthmatic and anti-allergic effects. Apples aid in detoxification, improve digestion, enhance skin, hair, and nail health, and offer protection against cancers, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s disease. Apples have been a dietary staple for centuries, consumed in various forms like juices, sauces, and ciders. The reviewed article emphasizes the health benefits of apples, highlighting their role in preventing civilization diseases. It also discusses the characteristics of common apple varieties and the impact of thermal processing on their nutritional content.
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Rodiuc, Natalia. "The effect of ultra high-diluted drugs on plant-nematode interaction." International Journal of High Dilution Research - ISSN 1982-6206 14, no. 2 (August 27, 2021): 09–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.51910/ijhdr.v14i2.772.
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Among plant pathogens, sedentary endoparasitic nematodes are one of the most damaging pests in global agriculture. Within this group, root-knot nematodes (RKN) Meloidogyne spp. is one of the most specialized phytoparasitic nematodes according to the complexity of the induced feeding sites. These phytopathogenic worms are highly resistant due to the large physiological variability, therefore difficult to fight against. The traditional methods of control, such as the crop rotation and the use of resistant varieties by classical selection are not always effective, time consuming and costly. The modern methods including the application of genetically modified crops (GMO), synthetic pesticides and bionematicides could be dangerous for human health and ecologically hazardous (Thomason, 1987; Malatesta et al. 2002a,b, 2008a,b; Spiroux de Vendômois et al., 2010; Seralini et al., 2012). Therefore, alternative routes must be taken in order to obtain plants resistant to nematodes. The ultra high dilutions (HDs) approach is largely in charge to dissect the infective process. HDs method is eco-friendly, low cost and leaves no residue in the environment. The classical phytopathological methods combined with modern microscopy approaches allowed to characterize the effect of different HD drugs on compatible interaction between model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and root-knot nematodes Meloidogyne incognita.
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Godin, Katelyn M., Violeta Chacón, Joaquin Barnoya, and Scott T. Leatherdale. "The school environment and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among Guatemalan adolescents." Public Health Nutrition 20, no. 16 (August 14, 2017): 2980–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980017001926.
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AbstractObjectiveThe current study sought to examine Guatemalan adolescents’ consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB), identify which individual-level characteristics are associated with SSB consumption and describe school characteristics that may influence students’ SSB consumption.DesignWithin this observational pilot study, a questionnaire was used to assess students’ consumption of three varieties of SSB (soft drinks, energy drinks, sweetened coffees/teas), as well as a variety of sociodemographic and behavioural characteristics. We collected built environment data to examine aspects of the school food environment. We developed Poisson regression models for each SSB variety and used descriptive analyses to characterize the sample.SettingGuatemala City, Guatemala.SubjectsGuatemalan adolescents (n1042) from four (two public, two private) secondary schools.ResultsBuilt environment data revealed that students from the two public schools lacked access to water fountains/coolers. The SSB industry had a presence in the schools through advertisements, sponsored food kiosks and products available for sale. Common correlates of SSB consumption included school type, sedentary behaviour, frequency of purchasing lunch in the cafeteria, and frequency of purchasing snacks from vending machines in school and off school property.ConclusionsGuatemalan adolescents frequently consume SSB, which may be encouraged by aspects of the school environment. Schools represent a viable setting for equitable population health interventions designed to reduce SSB consumption, including increasing access to clean drinking-water, reducing access to SSB, restricting SSB marketing and greater enforcement of existing food policies.
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., Jyoti, and Sidram Guled. "CLINICAL STUDY ON EFFECT OF VAMANA AND UDVARTANA KARMA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF STHOULYA." Journal of Pharmaceutical and Scientific Innovation 11, no. 1 (February 27, 2022): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.7897/2277-4572.111225.
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Introduction: The incidence of Obesity is increasing day by day in more percentage due to sedentary lifestyle and food habits and is resulting into many serious systemic complications. Sthoulya is kapha pradhana and medo-pradoshaja vyadhi. Charaka samhita mentioned Sthoulya disease under the eight varieties of personalities which are designated as Astha Nindita Purusha. Sthoulya is kapha and meda predominant vyadhi and vamana karma is prime therapy and it eliminates kapha and meda. Udvartana is another important therapy in Sthoulya that results in kapha meda vilayana and hence the present study is entitled as “Clinical study on effect of Vamana and Udvartana karma in the management of Sthoulya” was planned. Aims and Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of the Vamana karma, Udvartana in Sthoulya and to compare and assess the effect of both the therapies. Materials And Methods: Total 30 patients were selected, distributed in 2 equal groups, Group A treated with Vamana karma and Group B treated with Udvartana. Observations And Results: The progress was assessed based on subjective parameters considered by giving scores to the clinical signs and symptoms and objective parameters were done before treatment and after treatment with a specially prepared case proforma. Discussion and Conclusion: All the patients in both groups were responded positively without any complications. Group A with Vamana showed highly significant results in symptoms; Atikshudha, Ati pipasa, Nidradhikya, Shrama and Hyperlipidemia. Group B with Udvartana also showed highly significant results in symptoms like Nidradhikya, Swedadhikya, Dourgandya, Shrama and Alasya.
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Khan, S., R. Agrawal, and S. Memon. "Comparison of Effect of Yoga versus Aerobic Exercise on Waist Circumference, Waist-Hip Ratio and Body Mass Index in Overweight and Obese Adult Individuals." Kathmandu University Medical Journal 20, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 38–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/kumj.v20i1.49894.
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Background Obesity is becoming serious global public health issue due to sedentary lifestyle and bad eating habits. Dietary and lifestyle practices are directly related to obesity, which can cause serious health problems like cardiac ailments, diabetes, and hypertension etc. Vast varieties of options are available for weight reduction including physical exercises, various diet plans and also the pharmacological agents. Physical activity improves the fitness of the individual and helps in reducing the ill effects of the obesity.
Objective To compare the effects of Yoga and Aerobic Exercise on weight circumference, waist-hip ratio (WHR) and body mass index (BMI) in overweight and obese individuals.
Method An experimental study was started with purposive sampling. Sixty overweight and obese individuals from the community were divided equally into two groups, one group was given supervised yoga asana and the other group was given supervised aerobic exercise for 6 weeks. Waist circumference, waist hip ratio and body mass index were taken pre and post intervention.
Result Statistically significant difference was seen in pre and post intervention value of waist circumference, waist hip ratio and body mass index in both the groups with the p value < 0.05. However there was no statistical significant difference noted in waist hip ratio in individuals performing aerobic exercises as p value was > 0.05.
Conclusion Both the interventions showed significant reduction in waist circumference, waist hip ratio and body mass index, while better results were noted in the individuals performing yoga asanas.
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Krauss, Michael E. "Eskimo languages in Asia, 1791 on, and the Wrangel Island-Point Hope connection." Études/Inuit/Studies 29, no. 1-2 (November 13, 2006): 163–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/013938ar.
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Abstract Merck’s statement about four “Sedentary Chukchi” (Eskimo) languages or language varieties along the coast of Chukotka in 1791 is thoroughly remarkable and worthy of careful interpretation. By his statement of their geographical distribution, the first three languages are very easy to identify, as 1) Sirenikski, 2) Central Siberian Yupik, explicitly including St. Lawrence Island, and 3) Naukanski. Merck’s language number four, “Uwelenski” he claims, startlingly, to be spoken along the Arctic Coast of Chukotka from Uelen as far as Shelagski Cape, 600 miles to the northwest. Serendipitously enough, Merck has 70 or so ”Uwelenski” words of cultural interest transcribed throughout his text. Careful studies of these words by this writer and also by Mikhail Chlenov show that “Uwelenski” is in fact a dialect of Central Siberian Yupik, thus part of a language continuum spoken from St. Lawrence Island to the Chaplino corner and the East coast of Chukotka, thence to the North coast of that mainland, treating Naukan as a “third Diomede” rather than as a mainland interruption. However there is no evidence that language number four, “Uwelenski,” actually a dialect of Merck’s language number two, was spoken beyond Kolyuchin Bay. Beyond that point, however, there was indeed a fourth Eskimo language. The second half of the paper concludes, from at least seven independent sources, that that fourth language was in fact none other than North Alaskan Inupiaq, spoken intermittently in pockets between Kolyuchin and Shelagski Cape, at least since the opening of Russian posts at Kolyma and into the nineteenth century, by north Alaskans from the Point Hope area, who also used Wrangel Island as a stopping place.
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Benítez Fernández, Montserrat, and Jairo Guerrero. "The Jebli speech between the media and the city: exploring linguistic stereotypes on a rural accent in Northern Morocco." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2022, no. 278 (November 1, 2022): 181–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2022-0015.
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Abstract The symbolic values that speakers attribute to certain linguistic features constitute an important sociolinguistic topic which, barring a few seminal works, has not drawn much attention from scholars working on Maghrebi Arabic, and more specifically, Moroccan varieties. The present paper aims to deepen our understanding of metalinguistic representations of Jebli, a sedentary rural variety of Moroccan Arabic, within the speech communities of Larache and Ouezzane, two urban centres lying on the southern periphery of the Jbala region of Northern Morocco. We first analysed several samples of performed speech taken from an online Moroccan comedy sketch series entitled Jebli & Beldi, which includes a character epitomizing the Jebli accent, in order to identify those salient linguistic features that are perceived as being typically Jebli. As these phonetic and morphosyntactic traits are consciously selected in performed speech, it may be assumed that they make up a linguistic stereotype. We then asked a group of informants in the cities of Larache and Ouezzane to describe what they regarded as the typical features of Jebli speech and also their attitudes towards these features. The results of our study show that the features informants named partly coincided with our own sketch-based selection, and their attitudes towards these features were generally negative. These features did not appear in the speech of most informants, suggesting either their absence in their dialect or a deliberate avoidance strategy on their part. A small number in fact used these features but denied doing so, suggesting that the features are socially stigmatized. We argue that the symbolic values ascribed to some typical Jebli features may trigger their avoidance, which in turn may generate linguistic variation and even lead to linguistic change.
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Razzak, Maira Abdul, Mian Kamran Sharif, Tabana Naz, Muhammad Arham Rauf, Fareeha Shahid, Rameen Shahzad, Roma Saleem, Tahreem Aslam, and Aqsa Inam. "Evaluating the Bioactive Compounds of Beetroot and Their Pharmacological Activities in Promoting Health." European Journal of Health Sciences 10, no. 1 (February 25, 2024): 13–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.47672/ejhs.1802.
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Purpose: Lifestyle modification and sedentary life have led to multiple comorbidities which necessitate exploitation of underutilized novel ingredients in daily life. This comprehensive review aimed at providing valuable insight into the diverse pharmacological activities of beetroot bioactive compounds and their health enhancing properties. Furthermore, this review explored emerging research by scientific community for utilization of beetroot in the development of novel functional food products.
Materials and Methods: The scientific studies focusing on the biological activity and therapeutic potential of beetroot for health parameters were included in this study. Database search was made using google scholar, PubMed and research gate which generated a total of 200 papers. Out of which, only 63 met the inclusion criteria of this study. Inclusion criteria included literature focusing on beetroot’s bioavailability, plant pigments, bioactive compounds, health benefits, as well as studies describing food applications. This review includes studies between 2014 and 2023.
Findings: The main findings suggested that a prominent bioactive compound and natural betalain pigment in beetroot, exhibits potential anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic and anti-depressive properties. The anti-oxidant activity of betalain is effective against oxidative stress and play a role in preventing and mitigating chronic diseases. Bioactive components including, nitrate content, betanin and betacyanin, potentially modulate blood pressure and promote cardiovascular health. Furthermore, beetroot derived polyphenols, carotenoids, vitamins and minerals contribute to bone health, immune function and overall well-being. Food product development based studies demonstrate an overall improvement in the nutritional and sensory profile.
Implications to Theory, Practice and Policy: Further research on bioactive components of multiple varieties of beetroot is recommended to reassess the underlying mechanisms and optimal dosage for unlocking their potential for medicinal, nutraceuticals and dietary interventions. More research is needed by food industrialists and scientists to explore the potential of beetroot pigments as non-synthetic food additives particularly color enhancer in various food formulations.
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Camara, Iosif. "«Blachii ac pastores romanorum»: de nouveau sur le destin du latin à l’est / «Blachii ac pastores romanorum»: again, on the destiny of Latin in the East." Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies 2, no. 1 (May 16, 2019): 109–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v2i1.18962.
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The shepherding tradition in Romanic peoples enjoyed some interest among linguists in the first half of the 20th century. However, this tradition has been misunderstood, poorly known, or even completely ignored. Therefore, starting from a suggestion by Alf Lombard, we took up this research direction, discussing several issues revealed by the study of Eastern Romanity. These are the rustic character of the Romanian language bearing pastoral traits; the Carpathian-Balkan space in which the language was born and the issue of continuity in the North Danube area; and the dialectal configuration of the Romanian, having four relatively homogeneous historical dialects and language varieties. In this direction, we relied on linguistic, ethnographic, historical and archaeological research, in order to emphasize the importance of shepherding in the research of Eastern Romanity.
Genealogically, Romanian is defined as the Latin language spoken continuously in the eastern part of the Roman Empire, from the Carpathians to the Balkans, with the changes that have taken place throughout history. The pastoral character of Eastern Romanity is rendered by the early medieval chronicles; even the exonym vlah (Wallachian) designating the Romanic population has acquired the meaning of ‘shepherd’. The specificity of this community is supported by numerous linguistic facts: semantic evolutions (e.g. animal ‘living creature, animal’ > nămaie ‘sheep’), specific derivations (a înţărca ‘wean’, derived from ţarc ‘corral, enclosed area for animals’, which initially meant ‘getting the lamb into a corral, so it stopped sucking’), expressions (a închega un gând ‘crystallise thoughts’, where the verb used is a închega ‘coagulate’) or even morphologic elements (the structure of the Romanian numeral from 11 to 19, linked to the scoring system).
Throughout time, shepherding has been associated with the controversial issue of the territory in which the Romanian language and the Romanian people were born. Ethnological research has revealed the existence of four types of shepherding: local – agricultural – one, two types characterised by short transhumance, and the last one, associated with long-distance transhumance. Of the three types of transhumant shepherding, none identifies itself with the nomadic lifestyle and, therefore, the existence of a balkanische Hirtenromania (Balkan pastoral Romanity) does not imply the phenomenon of migration, as it was erroneously believed. Shepherding, through the forms described by ethnologists, explains both the sedentary character and the mobility of Oriental Romanity. Linguistic and archaeological arguments support G. Ivănescu’s view identifying the origins of the Romanian language in both the north and south of the Danube.
The pastoral character of Romanity led to a population mobility that influenced the language at diatopic level. There is, on the one hand, a dialectal diversity due to population movements, and, on the other hand, a surprising linguistic unit, due to transhumant shepherds whose travels played a linguistic levelling role. This fact explains the linguistic unity of the Romanian language, despite its territorial spread and development in several historical provinces separated by natural boundaries.
While shepherding explains some important issues in the history of Eastern Romanity, there is still need for systematic study on this topic. A comparative study of shepherding at the level of the entire Romanity is required in order to draw a complete picture of the lifestyle that characterized Romanity especially in the mountainous areas of Europe, bearing influence on the historical languages that we can only guess nowadays.
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Fischer, Jens G., Bastian Persohn, and Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun. "Phasal polarity in Tunisian Arabic." Studies in Language, March 20, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.22043.fis.
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This paper gives a corpus-based descriptive account of the phasal polarity system (still, already, not yet, and no longer) in the Arabic vernacular of Tunisia. The aim is to broaden the empirical foundations for cross-linguistic research in this domain, and to narrow the gap between typologically oriented and philological research on Arabic varieties. Like many languages (van Baar 1997: 118), Tunisian Arabic has autochthonous expressions for the three concepts still, not yet, and no longer. still is primarily expressed via a construction < ‘has not ceased’. Despite its conceptual transparency, this appears to be a cross-linguistically uncommon source. not yet is expressed via the inner negation of still, and no longer via a construction < ‘has not repeated’. For already, northern sedentary varieties have borrowed from French (replacing an older autochthonous expression), whereas southern Bedouin varieties have a “gap” in their system. The description further includes notes on the synchronic and diachronic variation of individual items, and functions of these outside the realm of phasal polarity.
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Ghanawat, Prasad Navanath, Prakash Mane, Pallavi Lahanu Nibe, and Ravindra Mirgane. "Ayurveda Concept of Medoroga with Special Reference to Obesity and Related Complication and their Medical Management." Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International, August 19, 2021, 295–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i41a32329.
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Obesity or medoroga is the only disease that is gaining more and more attention at the global level. This disease is prevalent in developing as well as in developed countries, in both sexes, across all ages and socioeconomic groups. Obesity is one of the prices we have to pay for rapid urbanization and a sedentary lifestyle. Obesity has been described in Ayurveda texts as medoroga or Sthaulya. Acharya Charaka has described eight varieties of impediments known as ashta nindita Purusha. Ati Sthaulya comprises one of them. Obesity is the risk factor for many diseases like diabetes, CVA, hypertension, etc. It is difficult to prevent and treat lifestyle diseases like obesity with the modern system of medicine alone. Ayurvedic science has great potential in preventing and treating lifestyle disorders like obesity. The presenter's view deals with aetiopathogenesis, symptomatology prevention, and management of Sthaulya as given in the Ayurveda classics.
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Wang, Anqi, Yanhui Jing, Qiao Cheng, Hongju Zhou, Lijun Wang, Wanxin Gong, Liquan Kou, et al. "Loss of function of SSIIIa and SSIIIb coordinately confers high RS content in cooked rice." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, no. 19 (May 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220622120.
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The sedentary lifestyle and refined food consumption significantly lead to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and related complications, which have become one of the major threats to global health. This incidence could be potentially reduced by daily foods rich in resistant starch (RS). However, it remains a challenge to breed high-RS rice varieties. Here, we reported a high-RS mutant rs4 with an RS content of ~10.8% in cooked rice. The genetic study revealed that the loss-of-function SSIIIb and SSIIIa together with a strong Wx allele in the background collaboratively contributed to the high-RS phenotype of the rs4 mutant. The increased RS contents in ssIIIa and ssIIIa ssIIIb mutants were associated with the increased amylose and lipid contents. SSIIIb and SSIIIa proteins were functionally redundant, whereas SSIIIb mainly functioned in leaves and SSIIIa largely in endosperm owing to their divergent tissue-specific expression patterns. Furthermore, we found that SSIII experienced duplication in different cereals, of which one SSIII paralog was mainly expressed in leaves and another in the endosperm. SSII but not SSIV showed a similar evolutionary pattern to SSIII . The copies of endosperm-expressed SSIII and SSII were associated with high total starch contents and low RS levels in the seeds of tested cereals, compared with low starch contents and high RS levels in tested dicots. These results provided critical genetic resources for breeding high-RS rice cultivars, and the evolutionary features of these genes may facilitate to generate high-RS varieties in different cereals.
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Yıldırım, Damla Selin, Murat Erdoğan, Metin Dalip, Celal Bulğay, and Mesut Cerit. "Evaluation of the soldier's physical fitness test results (strength endurance) ın relation to genotype: longitudinal study." Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics 23, no. 1 (July 31, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43042-022-00325-6.
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Abstract Background The aim of this study is to determine the effect of ACE gene polymorphism on the parameters studied (push-up & sit-up) in a long-term study, which has been carried out for many years and to find out whether the differences in ACE gene's metabolism due to the influence of parameters such as outside impacts and lifestyle (active or sedentary life) have a role in the development of strength endurance or not. Main text 59 male army officers made up the research team. A follow-up study of strength endurance (push-up and sit-up) test was conducted in the gym. The exam took two minutes to complete, and each application was tested separately. In both 2004 and 2019, persons with genotype ID had the best mean sit-up and push-up outcomes, followed by participants with genotype DD, and finally participants with genotype II (P 0.05). Compared to the original rates in 2004, all genotype groups showed a significant reduction in push-up and sit-up scores in the test. Conclusion The findings of this study may reveal if strength and lifestyle choices affect the metabolic implications of the genetic polymorphism in the body. Particular varieties actuated by genes, on either hand, don’t result in significant improvements without any changes in individuals’ practices or ways of living, as per the conclusions.
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Bouali, Zakaria, Amine Assouguem, Abdelmalek Boutaleb Joutei, Riaz Ullah, Ali S. Alqahtani, and Rachid Lahlali. "The false tiger of almond, Monosteira unicostata (Hemiptera: Tingidae): Biology, ecology, and control methods." Open Agriculture 9, no. 1 (January 1, 2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opag-2022-0310.
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Abstract The almond tree, following the olive tree, holds the distinction of being the fruit species occupying the largest area in Morocco, spanning 128,000 ha and hosting 16 million trees. This sector holds immense socio-economic significance both nationally and globally. Despite its prominence, the almond tree faces severe phytosanitary challenges, prominently among them, the False tiger bug of the almond tree, Monosteira unicostata (Mulsant & Rey [Hemiptera: Tingidae]). This polyphagous, sedentary, and gregarious hemipteran, boasting five larval instars and typically generating four generations annually, exhibits a life cycle duration ranging from 2 to 3 months contingent on the season. This pest inflicts notable harm on almond tree leaves by extracting their chlorophyll content through its piercing mouthparts and depositing excrement, impeding respiratory function and adversely impacting fruit development, maturation, and overall production. Diverse control strategies have been implemented to tackle this issue, commencing with prophylaxis involving resistant varieties and sound agricultural practices. Subsequently, biological control methods leveraging natural enemies such as Piocoris luridus and species from families including Coccinellidae, Anthocoridae, Lygaeidae, Miridae, and Nabidae have been employed. Plant-based biopesticides such as azadirachtin (Azadirachta indica), thyme oil (Thymus zygis), Jatropha oil (Jatropha curcas), and concentrated extracts of Artemisia absinthium, as well as mineral-based approaches involving treated kaolin sprays through particle film technology, contribute to the arsenal of control measures. In cases of severe infestations, synthetic active ingredients such as organophosphates, pyrethroids, carbamates, abamectin, and deltamethrin, among others, have proven efficacy in managing this pest.