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Devasahayam, Sheila, R. K. Raman, K. Chennakesavulu, and Sankar Bhattacharya. "Plastics—Villain or Hero? Polymers and Recycled Polymers in Mineral and Metallurgical Processing—A Review." Materials 12, no. 4 (February 21, 2019): 655. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12040655.
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This review focusses on the use of recycled and virgin polymers in mineral and metallurgical processing, both high and ambient temperature processes, including novel applications. End of life applications of polymers as well as the utilisation of polymers during its life time in various applications are explored. The discussion includes applications in cleaner coal production, iron and steel production, iron ore palletisation, iron alloy manufacturing, manganese processing, E-wastes processing and carbon sequestration. The underlying principles of these applications are also explained. Advantages and disadvantages of using these polymers in terms of energy and emission reductions, reduction in non-renewables and dematerialisation are discussed. Influence of the polymers on controlling the evolution of micro and nanostructures in alloys and advanced materials is also considered.
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Cormier, Raymond. "La Cronique et histoire des mervilleuses aventures de Appolin roy de Thir (from the London manuscript, British Library, Royal 20 C II). Ed. Vladimir Agrigoroaei. Published under the direction of Claudio Galderisi and Pierre Nobel. Bibliothèque de Transmédie, 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013, 205 pp." Mediaevistik 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 474–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2019.01.124.
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Doubtless the hero’s journey was invented long before the Middle Ages. But, at least since The Odyssey, the theme was certainly popular, “back in the day.” Like some modern-day super hero, Appolin (Apollonius) encounters, during his own odyssey, an endless array of life-bending adventures. The list seems endless: an incest episode, a shipwreck, an encounter with a dragon as well a virgin in a brothel, and so forth, all occurring within some thirty chapter-like narrative sequences of about sixty lines each.
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Rebel, G. M. "MANOR TOPOS AND GENRE SPECIFICITY OF TURGENEV’s NOVEL." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 30, no. 6 (December 11, 2020): 1055–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2020-30-6-1055-1060.
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The article polemically comprehends the practice of considering the manor topos as a genre-defining feature of Turgenev's novel, since this strategy ignores the plot logic, the content of the main characters, the essence of their relationships and the final meanings of the works. In addition, this approach inevitably destroys the aesthetic unity of Turgenev's work, because “Smoke” and “Virgin Soil” do not fit into the “manor” genre paradigm, even at the level of formal criteria. In this article, based on the material of Turgenev's novels - mainly those in which there is a “Turgenev’s girl” (“Rudin”, “A Nest of Gentlefolk”, “On the Eve”, “Virgin Soil”), - it is shown that the vector of the heroine's fate is directed from the manor world to the big world of search and struggle. The thirst for active good lies at the heart of the choice of the heroine: her chosen one, in contrast to the usual environment, is a spokesman of the spirit of the time, a hero of time, which opens up new horizons of life for her. The plot logic of Turgenev's novel is due not to the chamber circumstances of the life of a noble estate, but to the pathos of the ideas proclaimed by the hero and the thirst for self-realization of the characters in a socially significant field. This determines the genre specificity of Turgenev's novel as an ideological novel.
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Khalifa-Gueta, Sharon. "Medusa Must Die! The Virgin and the Defiled in Greco-Roman Medusa and Andromeda Myths." ATHENS JOURNAL OF MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES 7, no. 3 (May 19, 2021): 201–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajms.7-3-4.
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Andromeda and Medusa are two types within the same motif—that of the motif of “the woman and the dragon”. This article positions a mythical hero between these two women and contrasts their relationship with dragons, along with a further fresh investigation of women and dragons in ritual and cultural context. The complexity of this motif, in contrast to the dragon-slayer topos, is explored, shedding light on social views, desires, and fears toward women in the ancient Greco-Roman cultural context. These female figures are contrasted within one mythical sequence, elucidating their educational role for men. This investigation also confronts the “good” versus the “defiled” woman and clarifies why a “holy-defiled” woman, such as Medusa, cannot exist in patriarchal cultures, and therefore must be isolated, killed, or otherwise controlled by patriarchal society. Keywords: dragon, Andromeda, Medusa, Perseus, myth
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Currie, Bruno. "Euthymos of Locri: a case study in heroization in the Classical period." Journal of Hellenic Studies 122 (November 2002): 24–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3246203.
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AbstractEuthymos was a real person, an Olympic victor from Locri Epizephyrii in the first half of the fifth century BC. Various sources attribute to him extraordinary achievements: he received cult in his own lifetime; he fought with and overcame the ‘Hero of Temesa’, a daimon who in ritual deflowered a virgin in the Italian city of Temesa every year; and he vanished into a local river instead of dying (extant iconography from Locri shows him as a river god receiving cult a century after his death). By taking an integrative approach to Euthymos' legend and cult iconography, this article proposes a new interpretation of the complex. It is argued that Euthymos received cult already in his lifetime in consequence of his victory over the Hero and that he took over, in a modified form, the Hero's cult. Various considerations, including the role of river gods as the recipients of brides' virginity in prenuptial rites, point to an identification of the Hero as a river deity. In this light it is suggested that the contest between Euthymos and the Hero was conceived as a deliberate emulation of Herakles' fight with Acheloos. The case of Euthymos at Locri, for all its peculiarities, draws our attention to some important aspects of the heroization of historical persons in the Classical period. First, the earliest attested cult of a living person in Greece is to be placed around the middle of the fifth century. Second, heroized persons in the Classical period were not always passive in the process of their heroization, but could actively promote it. And third, a common pattern in the heroization of contemporaries in the Classical period was to accommodate them into existing cults.
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Zhetibay, R. "THE IMAGE OF A WOMAN IN ZH.NAZHIMEDENOV'S STORY «АЗАМАТ АУЫЛЫ» AND «ӘЙЕЛДЕР»." BULLETIN Series of Philological Sciences 74, no. 4 (December 9, 2020): 230–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.51889/2020-4.1728-7804.48.
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This article analyzes in detail the stories of Zhumeken Nazhimedenov "Azamat auyly" and"Ayelder". The author analyzes the stories from the point of view of the author's concept, from the point of view of the artistic structure. The article analyzes the image of a" woman " created by artistic means. The article also examines the manifestations of elements of modernism in the modern literary process. The article contains links to the 6th volume of Zhumken Nazhimedenov's works and to the works of K. Zhanuzakova " introduction to literary studies» The significance of the article lies in the analysis of the artistic structure of Zhumeken's stories, which were not analyzed in the prose of past eras. We identified ways to create a female image by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the history of that period. Everyone knows that W. Nazhimedenov built a virgin land in poetry, and his prose works moved away from the literary arena. From this point of view, in our article we have made every effort to show the power of the author in a prose work and emphasize the skill in creating a female image. At the end of the article, we showed the unity of the image of the lyrical hero and the hero in prose, the specifics of the author's method of description, and the originality of language use.
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Sanyal, Debarati. "WAYWARD VOICES: CHORUS, IMPROVISATION AND UPHEAVAL IN …(IPHIGENIA)." Ramus 52, no. 1 (June 2023): 50–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rmu.2023.14.
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Iphigenia is the archetype of virgin sacrifice, a daughter dispossessed of her voice and body, killed for the gods, the father and the nation. From Euripides to Racine, from Gluck's opera to Cacoyannis's film, across time and media, Iphigenia has embodied the paradox of a voice that emerges as the condition of its annihilation. Hers is a choiceless choice: to consent to her sacrifice with varying degrees of fervor and possible rationales, to submit to an economy the terms of which are set by capricious gods, a reckless king, a pusillanimous father and a masculine military baying for blood. The daughter embraces her death so that the father's reputation remains intact, so that no more lives are lost in vain, so that the army can set sail. Iphigenia's sacrifice is a familiar cultural script regarding the transactional value of girls under patriarchy. Her sacrifice is the price of entry into a ‘hero-industrial complex’ that positions her simultaneously as protagonist and victim, savior and scapegoat.
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Tyunyaeva, Olga Dmitrievna. "“American-Style Man of Real Action”: the Image of Vasily Solomin in I. S. Turgenev’ Novel “Virgin Soil”." Litera, no. 2 (February 2023): 75–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2023.2.39719.
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The article focuses on the American topic in Turgenev's works. The rise of the diverse image of America drawn by Turgenev is shown in vast framework of what generally was thought about the New World in middle of XIXth century Russia. The author shows certain intersections that existed between the Russian Empire and the United States in the XIXth century, which determines the interest of these countries in each other. Turgenev's interest in the literature and culture of the United States was due not only to the personal tastes of the writer, but also to the general enthusiasm for the New World in Russian society of that time. The main point is the character of “postepenovets” Solomin from the novel Virgin soil. This character comprises several aspects of the major idea of a typical American shared by Russian society in XIXth century. The profound analysis of this last Turgenev's novel lets us to state that the American narrative interests Turgenev due to the new concept of developing Russia from below. Solomin, an American-style "man of real business" is shown like a hero, who can act in the prevailing historical conditions in Russia.
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Polshchak, Aneliya. "Anthroponyms in F. Peretti’s Novel “The Visit”." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 109 (June 28, 2024): 22–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2024.109.022.
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The article examines important anthroponyms in the novel “The Visit” by Frank Peretti, an outstanding author in the genre of Christian fiction whose works are on a par with the stories and novels of Tolkien and Lewis. Anthroponyms in this work of Peretti acquire importance due to the deep meaning connection with the literary, biblical tradition, revealed thanks to the application of the method of careful reading. The author’s naming of his characters testifies to his vision of the text, characters, language picture of the world, and reality, is a factor that determines the ideological and semantic level of the work. Therefore, similar studies open perspectives in these areas. The investigation focuses on the anthropoms of several characters with variants of the name Maria, which also include a significant element of symbolism, several names that belong to one character and reflect the evolution of the hero and his self-identification, mutual reinforcement of the names and surnames of the characters. Thus, for example, the set of names associated with Brandon Nichols (Justin Cantwell) reveals his evolution from a person who succumbs to suffering to a false messiah with signs of false brilliance and pathos. The advantage of this study is taking into account the functionality of anthroponyms, which, thanks to their widespread use, contribute the quality of characters some objects of the story (for example, a church dedicated to the Virgin of the Fields). The mutual strengthening of the meaning of different degrees of anthroponyms can be traced both in characters with a tendency towards a clear homogeneous positive orientation (Marian Ciardelli, Kyle Sherman) and in a hero with a more diverse range of evaluation of personality qualities (Brandon Nichols). The presence of different, unrelated, or little related meanings of the name helps to create a three-dimensional image of the hero, as in the case of Brandon Nichols, and leave the reader free for his/her perception and interpretation of the characters.
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Andreeva, Valeria G. "“Excited Snails”. Radicalism and apoliticalism in the novel “Smoke” by Ivan Turgenev." Two centuries of the Russian classics 2, no. 4 (2020): 228–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2020-2-4-228-249.
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The article is devoted to clarifying the problematics and genre originality of the novel “Smoke” by Ivan Turgenev, revealing the universal opposition behind the heroes’ external wars of words, particularly noticeable in the example of the opposition “life — deadness”. The author of the article argues that an important socio-political assessment of the heroes does not convey the entire intention of the writer, presenting the theory of the civilisational development of Russia. One of the main ideas in the civic novel “Smoke” is the idea of progress, which is considered both at the level of disputes between Westernisers and Slavophils, and at the level of ontological life foundations. In the fictional world of the novel, the denied positions of the Slavophils are greatly simplified, and the Westernisers’ views asserted in general are softened and corrected by figurative oppositions. The article demonstrates the connection between the idea of progress and the family theme, the role of the new hero-figure of the post-reform era in the fate of Russia. The novel “Smoke” is considered in the context of Ivan Turgenev’s late creative work, his intertextualities with the stories “Ghosts”, “Enough”, its connection with the subsequent epic novel “Virgin soil” are noted. Special attention is paid to the conflict between the creative hero and the environment, the high society, the path of the personality and the responsibility of a person for each of his actions. The characters of the central characters of the novel are considered, the change in the writer’s intention is shown, gradually reducing the image of Sozont Potugin, whom Ivan Turgenev endowed with thoughts and beliefs dear to him.
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Vasić, Danijela. "INTERNACIONALNI MOTIV ZMAJEUBISTVA U JAPANSKOM MITU I LEGENDI." Nasledje Kragujevac XIX, no. 51 (2022): 211–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/naskg2251.211v.
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Systematic comparative studies of international significance indicate that there are con- siderable similarities between ideas, beliefs, and customs of various nations, even in the tradi- tions of geographically distant countries with completely different cultural, religious, historical, and social background. One of these links is the dragon-slaying motif, which appears in myth and folklore. This paper deals with a comparative analysis of different narrative types, in which the international motif of the duel between a hero and a supernatural being is stylized. Despite the differences, these plots generally have common elements, such as: a monstrous devouring serpent/dragon that is taking control over the water; a hero arriving from afar; slay- ing the monster and rescuing a virgin offered to the monster as a human sacrifice; marrying the rescued girl. In Japanese culture there are such heroe, too. In legends, even a woman can be a dragon-slayer. The mythical dragon-slayer is the God of storm and natural forces, Take Haja Susanoo. He demonstrates all the characteristics of a trickster in the Heavenly sphere through destroying and even causing death. However, with his descent into the earthly sphere, his good qualities are emphasized. One of his achievements includes the very slaying of the monster − Yamata no Orochi, and setting his potential victim free. In the Japanese myth, we discover links with related tales from distant cultures, even from these regions. Thus, for example, such heroes of Serbian folk tales fight dragons. We can find the most famous Chris- tian dragon slayer in Christian hagiographic legends. Saint George shows the characteristics of mythical and legendary heroes, saves the emperor’s daughter from a beast , as well as the whole kingdom.
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Friedman, Sharon. "Revisioning the Woman's Part: Paula Vogel's ‘Desdemona’." New Theatre Quarterly 15, no. 2 (May 1999): 131–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00012823.
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In Desdemona, Paula Vogel's revision of Shakespeare's Othello, we have a Desdemona who is Othello's worst nightmare, the transformation of lago's fiction into reality. Why has Paula Vogel created a Desdemona who, though ostensibly inside out, still appears to be Othello's projection? Sharon Friedman argues that although Paula Vogel's raucous Desdemona draws on many of the conventions of feminist revisioning, it marks an important shift in the feminist critical perspective in drama – as characterized by Lynda Hart, ‘from discovering and creating positive images of women … to analyzing and disrupting the ideological codes embedded in the inherited structures of dramatic representation’. In a deconstructive parody, Vogel dislodges the convention of the intimate scene between women in Shakespeare's theatre and expands it into an entire play. Decentering the tragic hero, she foregrounds and enacts the threat of female desire that incites the tragic action, and disrupts the familiar categories of virgin, whore, and faithful handmaiden by forging links with gender ideology and class status. The author, Sharon Friedman, is an Associate Professor in the Gallatin School of New York University, and the author of several articles on American women dramatists, including Susan Glaspell and Lorraine Hansberry.
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Cormier, Raymond J. "Thibaut de Champagne, Les Chansons— Texts and Melodies. Bilingual edition prepared by Christopher Callahan, Marie-Geneviève Grossel, and Daniel E. O'Sullivan. Paris: Champion, 2018, pp. 848." Mediaevistik 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 441–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2019.01.107.
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Counted among the most original and prolific medieval French poets, Thibaut IV, count of Champagne and Brie, King of Navarre, was also called Thibaut the poet entertainer (1201–1253). This great-grandson of Eleanor of Aquitaine and great-grandfather of Marie de Champagne, was celebrated by Dante for the purity of his lyrics and widely admired for his mastery of all genres of the time. Remarkable as well for his interpretations of antique mythology and bestiaries, this grand prince and Crusade hero forged poems devoted to the Virgin, transmuting the lyrical lady into a celestial figura. The generous and capacious volume to hand, prepared by young scholars, one French and two Americans, is completely devoted to the famous poet; it is, since the long-respected 1925 edition by Wallensköld (SATF; just a single scholar), the first really complete one. It offers not only all the poems (love songs, debate poems, pastourelles, Crusade, and religious poems) accompanied by their melody, but also robust notes, concordant variants, and isolated melodies. The modern French translations are complemented by additional comments in the glossary, thus offering the reader a very generous and useful reference tool, the fruit of years of accumulated philological and musicological research.
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سالم رزيق, كمال. "المرأة الأغريقية في الالياذة والاوديسة." مجلة العلوم والدراسات الإنسانية - كلية الآداب والعلوم – المرج, no. 77 (July 17, 2024): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.37376/jsh.vi77.6621.
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In the Iliad and the Odyssey, Greek women are portrayed differently according to the role they play in the story. In the Iliad, there are several influential women in the novel. Women in this work are usually depicted as wives, mothers or sisters, who are supporters of heroic men and a source of inspiration for them. They are portrayed as strong and wise characters who use their wisdom and cooperation to preserve the family and society. As for the Odyssey, a variety of female characters are presented. Women in this work are sometimes depicted as attractive and exotic beings, like the breathtaking nympho Kirke. Some of them possess divine qualities and supernatural power, such as the witch Helena and the virgin princess nausica. However, many of the women in the two novels appear weakly and impressively, portrayed exceptionally for male narrators. They are often considered royalty, be it the wives of Odysseus, victims of wars or sculptures representing the sexual passions of the hero. In general, the role of Greek women in the Iliad and the Odyssey is described in a diverse and complex way, reflecting the traditional image of women in ancient Greek society. Women may be influential and inspiring forces, but they also suffer from cultural and social limitations and challenges.
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Fernández Izaguirre, Penélope Marcela. "Descensus ad Inferos: tres ejemplos de la literatura hispánica medieval del siglo XIII (Libro de Alexandre, General Estoria y Milagros de Nuestra Señora)." Medievalia 52, no. 2 (December 2, 2020): 61–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.19130/medievalia.2020.52.2.171864.
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The journey to the afterlife is a fundamental theme of mythological origin and present in primitive religious thought. Of course, it was in the Middle Ages when writers again addressed the topic of the descent into hell. Although the journey to the underworld was frequently presented as the pilgrimage of a hero or an individual soul, it was also possible that the gods, oblivious to the world of shadows, entered there. Following this perspective, this article will analyze the descent into hell by three female visitors depicted in 13th-century Spanish literature. Thus, in the first place, I will present examples of testimonies created prior to the consolidation of the topic of descensus ad Inferos in the Middle Ages to identify the literary traditions that influenced the reworking of the theme. In the second part, I will describe the topic in three texts of Medieval Hispanic literature, by evoking the digression on Natura in the Libro de Alexandre (cc. 2325-2437), the miracle “De cómo Teófilo fizo carta con el diablo de su ánima et después fue convertido e salvo” from the Milagros de Nuestra Señora (cc.703-866) and the passage about Juno’s fury and revenge from Part Two of the General Estoria. Finally, it will be demonstrated how the episodes describing the descent into hell by Natura, Juno and the Virgin Mary follow a similar structure. Their entrance into Hell is justified by the attributes they possess as mediators.
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Carcea, Ioana, Naomi López Caraballo, Bianca J. Marlin, Rumi Ooyama, Justin S. Riceberg, Joyce M. Mendoza Navarro, Maya Opendak, et al. "Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behaviour." Nature 596, no. 7873 (August 11, 2021): 553–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03814-7.
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AbstractMaternal care, including by non-biological parents, is important for offspring survival1–8. Oxytocin1,2,9–15, which is released by the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN), is a critical maternal hormone. In mice, oxytocin enables neuroplasticity in the auditory cortex for maternal recognition of pup distress15. However, it is unclear how initial parental experience promotes hypothalamic signalling and cortical plasticity for reliable maternal care. Here we continuously monitored the behaviour of female virgin mice co-housed with an experienced mother and litter. This documentary approach was synchronized with neural recordings from the virgin PVN, including oxytocin neurons. These cells were activated as virgins were enlisted in maternal care by experienced mothers, who shepherded virgins into the nest and demonstrated pup retrieval. Virgins visually observed maternal retrieval, which activated PVN oxytocin neurons and promoted alloparenting. Thus rodents can acquire maternal behaviour by social transmission, providing a mechanism for adapting the brains of adult caregivers to infant needs via endogenous oxytocin.
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Abubakr Alsiddeg Hammad1,5*, Abdelgadir A. Abdelgadir1,2, Sitelbanat Yassin3, Abdulrahim A. Alzain4, and Elhadi M. Ahmed1,2. "GC-MS Analysis, Antibiogram and Computational Studies of Kakamout (Acacia polyacantha L.) Leaves Hydro-Ethanolic Extract." Omdurman Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 2, no. 3 (December 27, 2022): 195–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.52981/ojps.v2i3.2867.
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Medicinal plants represent the main source of therapeutic agents. The WHO stated that most of the world population use herbal drugs because they belief that, they are safe, cheap and affordable. Many modern drugs show resistance to pathogenic bacteria as one of the forms of antimicrobial resistance which is considered from the top problematic issues in the world. Fortunately, medicinal plants can be the hero for fighting this problem by providing new antibacterial agents. Sudan is a virgin area for phytomedicine research due to its diversity of traditions besides the diversity of climates that leads to variety of plant species. Acacia polyacantha tree is widely available in Sudan and is used traditionally for treating many bacterial diseases. This study aimed to analyze the hydro-ethanol extract of Acacia polyacanthaleaves using GC-MS analysis and to determine its antibiogram against two standard bacterial strains by well diffusion method, besides molecular docking and ADMET studies.A. Polyacantha leaves was extracted by cold maceration using Ethanol 70%. GC-MS analysis was carried out for the first time and proved to contain 23 compounds. The major compounds were4-O-Methylmannose (60.28%), Phytol (8.2%) and Adenosine N6-phenylaceticacid (4.74%). The extract was tested for antibacterial activity against standard bacterial strains of Gram +ve bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus) and Gram -ve bacteria (Pseudomonas aeroginosa) by well diffusion method which was active against S.aureus and inactive against P.aeruginosa. Moreover, binding mode and pharmacokinetics properties of the compounds present in the extract were further studied and reported. In conclusion, A. Polyacantha leaves extract is rich in phytochemical compounds having antibacterial activity.
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Zagorodneva, Kristina V. "Dialogues with the Artist and Functions of Pictures in Arkady Stavitsky’s Play ‘Good afternoon, Mister Gauguin!’." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология 14, no. 1 (2022): 120–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2022-1-120-132.
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The article analyzes Good Afternoon, Mister Gauguin!, the only ekphrastic play by modern Russian playwright and screenwriter Arkady Stavitsky (1930-2020), in the context of the writer’s works and taking into account approaches to the study of ekphrasis and visuality in drama. Following the intermedial approach, the research involved the study of works on art criticism and biographies dedicated to Gauguin’s life and work. Stavitsky focuses not only on the personality of the famous artist Paul Gauguin but also on his works created in the late 80s and early 90s of the 19th century. The ekphrasis of the picture ‘Good Afternoon, Mister Gauguin’ is present in the detailed remark at the beginning of the play. The title of both the picture and the play reflects the emotional state of the hero and ‘loops the finale’. The picture ‘The Yellow Christ’ symbolically sharpens the conflict between life and art, art and society. Stavitsky rethinks Gauguin’s character through his relationship with female characters in the play: the characters of Anna, Juliette, and Mette refer to the images of the myrrh-bearers at the foot of the cross in the picture ‘The Yellow Christ’ or ‘three Joans of Arc’ in the painting ‘Breton Women’.The pictures mentioned in the play are mostly by Paul Gauguin and his friend Emil Necker. Accordingly, while the pictures of the former are real, those of the latter are fictional. The generalized character of Emil Necker in the play suggests a parallel with S. Maugham’s novel The Moon and Sixpence. Necker’s picture ‘A Woman with a Child’ refers the reader to the famous canvases of Western European painters on the plot of the Virgin and Child. Emil’s wife Anna becomes one of the models for Gauguin’s works – the painting ‘Loss of Innocence’ and the sculpture ‘Be in Love and You Will Be Happy’, revealing the other side of her nature. The conflict between Anna and Juliette, another one of Gauguin’s models, is dramatized in the scene with a sketch for these works. The image of Van Gogh, depicted in the play as an unrecognized but ingenious artist, unites and contrasts Emil and Paul. The playwright’s familiarity with the published correspondence between Gauguin and Van Gogh, Gauguin and his wife Mette is obvious. The dialogism of the picture whose name is reproduced in the title of the play correlates not only with the dialogues in the play, organized around other pictures, but also emphasizes the author’s contradictory attitude toward his hero.
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Disalvo, Santiago. "Hortus deliciarum et flos spineti : el jardín y las flores de María, de la poesía litúrgica a la lírica hispánica medieval." Revista do Centro de Estudos Portugueses 30, no. 44 (December 31, 2010): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2359-0076.30.44.131-151.
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<p>El jardín de María es uno de los logros artísticos más refinados y elevados de la Europa medieval, con innumerables manifestaciones en la plástica, la poesía y la música. El tema se presenta aquí en tres breves pasos: el motivo de la Virgen como flor y la Virgen como jardín en algunas muestras de poesía litúrgica europea, un momento de confluencia entre el <em>locus amoenus </em>amatorio y el jardín mariano, y el jardín de María en la lírica hispánica medieval, de tipo litúrgico.</p> <p>Mary’s garden is one of the most refined and elevated artistic accomplishments in medieval Europe, with countless expressions in art, poetry, and music. The subject is presented here in three brief steps: the motif of the Virgin as a flower and the Virgin as a garden in some samples of European liturgical poetry, the possible confluence of <em>locus amoenus </em>love topic and the Marian garden, and Mary’s garden in the medieval Hispanic liturgical lyric.</p><p> </p>
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Leyria, Jimena, Alessandra A. Guarneri, Marcelo G. Lorenzo, Marcela Nouzova, Fernando G. Noriega, Samiha A. M. Benrabaa, Francisco Fernandez-Lima, Lilian Valadares Tose, Ian Orchard, and Angela B. Lange. "Effects of mating on female reproductive physiology in the insect model, Rhodnius prolixus, a vector of the causative parasite of Chagas disease." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17, no. 9 (September 20, 2023): e0011640. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011640.
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The blood-sucking hemipteran Rhodnius prolixus is one of the main vectors of Chagas disease, a neglected tropical disease that affects several million people worldwide. Consuming a blood meal and mating are events with a high epidemiological impact since after each meal, mated females can lay fertile eggs that result in hundreds of offspring. Thus, a better knowledge of the control of R. prolixus reproductive capacity may provide targets for developing novel strategies to control vector populations, thereby reducing vector-host contacts and disease transmission. Here, we have used a combination of gene transcript expression analysis, biochemical assays, hormone measurements and studies of locomotory activity to investigate how mating influences egg development and egg laying rates in R. prolixus females. The results demonstrate that a blood meal increases egg production capacity and leads to earlier egg laying in mated females compared to virgins. Virgin females, however, have increased survival rate over mated females. Circulating juvenile hormone (JH) and ecdysteroid titers are increased in mated females, a process mainly driven through an upregulation of the transcripts for their biosynthetic enzymes in the corpus allatum and ovaries, respectively. Mated females display weaker locomotory activity compared to virgin females, mainly during the photophase. In essence, this study shows how reproductive output and behaviour are profoundly influenced by mating, highlighting molecular, biochemical, endocrine and behavioral features differentially expressed in mated and virgin R. prolixus females.
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DAVIES, MALCOLM. "THE HERO AND HIS ARMS." Greece and Rome 54, no. 2 (September 3, 2007): 145–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383507000137.
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Arma virumque cano Virgil sang, or professed to sing, at the start of his epic, and one may reformulate the import of his programmatic words to fit a new context. Obtaining weapons he can call his own is very often a key moment near the start of the career of a folk-tale hero. And very often it is the hero's mother who equips him with them. Paradoxically, this truth may be confirmed, e contrario, by reference to the Welsh story of Lleu Llaw Gyffes from the Mabinogion, for, in that narrative, the hero's mother Aranhry seeks to thwart at its inception the career of her son – whom she had exposed, since his very existence causes her so much embarrassment – by placing a Destiny or interdiction upon him: he will never bear arms unless and until she herself bestows them. The ban is circumvented by a cunning ruse: the magician Gwydion disguises her son and himself as peripatetic bards, in which capacity they are entertained in Aranhry's castle. When Gwydion conjures up a phantom army and fleet to besiege the citadel, the alarmed Aranhry is all too ready to bestow weapon and armour on the younger of her two guests – only to find the army vanished and her own son in possession of the arms she had sworn he would not bear.
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Cunningham, Mark W., Crystal A. West, Xuerong Wen, Aihua Deng, and Chris Baylis. "Pregnant rats treated with a high-fat/prooxidant Western diet with ANG II and TNF-α are resistant to elevations in blood pressure and renal oxidative stress." American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 308, no. 11 (June 1, 2015): R945—R956. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.00141.2014.
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Oxidative stress and inflammation are risk factors for hypertension in pregnancy. Here, we examined the 24-h mean arterial pressure (MAP) via telemetry and the nitric oxide (NO) and redox systems in the kidney cortex, medulla, and aorta of virgin and pregnant rats treated with a high-fat/prooxidant Western diet (HFD), ANG II, and TNF-α. Female Sprague-Dawley rats were given a normal diet (ND) or a HFD for 8 wk before mating. Day 6 of pregnancy and age-matched virgins were implanted with minipumps infusing saline or ANG II (150 ng·kg−1·min−1) + TNF-α (75 ng/day) for 14 days. Groups consisted of Virgin + ND + Saline (V+ND) ( n = 7), Virgin + HFD +ANG II and TNF-α (V+HFD) ( n = 7), Pregnant + ND + Saline (P+ND) ( n = 6), and Pregnant + HFD + ANG II and TNF-α (P+HFD) ( n = 8). After day 6 of minipump implantation, V+HFD rats displayed an increase in MAP on days 7, 8, and 10–15 vs. V+ND rats. P+HFD rats, after day 6 of minipump implantation, showed an increase in MAP only on day 7 vs. P+ND rats. P+HFD rats had a normal fall in 24-h MAP, hematocrit, plasma protein concentration, and osmolality at late pregnancy. No change in kidney cortex, medulla, or aortic oxidative stress in P+HFD rats. P+HFD rats displayed a decrease in nNOSβ abundance, but no change in kidney cortex NOxcontent vs. P+ND rats. Pregnant rats subjected to a chronic HFD and prooxidant and proinflammatory insults have a blunted increase in 24-h MAP and renal oxidative stress. Our data suggest renal NO bioavailability is not altered in pregnant rats treated with a HFD, ANG II, and TNF-α.
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Ayerbe Linares, Miguel. "La traducción de coniux y uxor referidos a la Virgen María en las traducciones de los evangelios al inglés antiguo." Hermēneus. Revista de traducción e interpretación, no. 25 (January 22, 2024): 41–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/her.25.2023.41-67.
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Estudios previos han puesto de manifiesto que en traducciones del Nuevo Testamento a algunas lenguas germánicas antiguas se constata el uso de un término distinto para hacer referencia a «mujer casada, esposa», según sea el referente la Virgen María, por un lado, o cualquier otra mujer, por otro. Como explicación para esta distinción terminológica en las diferentes lenguas germánicas en calidad de lenguas meta, se ha propuesto la necesidad de salvaguardar lingüísticamente la perpetua virginidad de María. En una línea similar, el objetivo del presente artículo consiste en analizar los términos empleados en traducciones del Nuevo Testamento a diferentes dialectos del inglés antiguo para referirse a la Virgen María como mujer casada, comparándolos con los usados en los mismos textos para referirse a otras mujeres en idéntico estado, con el fin de comprobar si la Virgen María recibe un tratamiento distinto cuando se hace referencia a ella como esposa.
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KITLV, Redactie. "Bookreview." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 79, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2005): 103–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134360-90002504.
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Marcus Wood; Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography (Lynn M. Festa)Michèle Praeger; The Imaginary Caribbean and Caribbean Imaginary (Celia Britton)Charles V. Carnegie; Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (John Collins)Mervyn C. Alleyne; The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World (Charles V. Carnegy)Jerry Gershenhorn; Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge (Richard Price)Sally Cooper Coole; Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology (Olivia Maria Gomes Da Cunha)Maureen Warner Lewis; Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures (Robert W. Slenes)Gert Oostindie (ed.); Facing up to the Past: Perspectives on the Commemoration of Slavery from Africa, the Americas and Europe (Gad Heuman)Gert Oostindie, Inge Klinkers; Decolonising the Caribbean: Dutch Policies in a Comparative Perspective (Paul Sutton)Kirk Peter Meigho; Politics in a ‘Half-Made Society’: Trinidad and Tobago, 1925-2001 (Douglas Midgett)Linden Lewis (ed.); The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean (David A.B. Murray)Gertrude Aub-Buscher, Beverly Ormerod Noakes (eds.); The Francophone Caribbean Today: Literature, Language, Culture (Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw)Sally Lloyd-Evans, Robert B. Potter; Gender, Ethnicity and the Iinformal Sector in Trinidad (Katherine E. Browne)STeve Striffler, Mark Moberg (eds.); Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas (Peter Clegg)Johannes Postma, Victor Enthoven (eds.); Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817 (Gert J. Oostindie)Phil Davison; Volcano in Paradise: Death and Survival on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat (Bonham C. Richardson)Ernest Zebrowski jr; The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed Thirty Thousand Lives (Bernard Moitt)Beverley A. Steele; Grenada: A History of Its People (Jay R. Mandle)Walter C. Soderlund (ed.); Mass Media and Foreign Policy: Post-Cold War Crises in the Caribbean (Jason Parker)Charlie Whitham; Bitter Rehearsal: British and American Planning for a Post-War West Indies (Jason Parker)Douglas V. Amstrong; Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom: Historical Archaeology of the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands (Karin Fog Olwig)H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen; Een koloniaal drama: De grote staking van de Marron vrachtvaarders, 1921 (Chris de Beet)Joseph F. Callo; Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787 (Carl E. Swanson)Jorge Duany; The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States (Juan Flores)Raquel Z. Rivera; New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (Halbert Barton)Alfonso J. García Osuna; The Cuban Filmography, 1897 through 2001 (Ann Marie Stock)Michael Aceto, Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.); Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (Geneviève Escure)In: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG) 79 (2005), no. 1 & 2
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KITLV, Redactie. "Bookreview." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 79, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2008): 103–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002504.
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Marcus Wood; Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography (Lynn M. Festa)Michèle Praeger; The Imaginary Caribbean and Caribbean Imaginary (Celia Britton)Charles V. Carnegie; Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (John Collins)Mervyn C. Alleyne; The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World (Charles V. Carnegy)Jerry Gershenhorn; Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge (Richard Price)Sally Cooper Coole; Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology (Olivia Maria Gomes Da Cunha)Maureen Warner Lewis; Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures (Robert W. Slenes)Gert Oostindie (ed.); Facing up to the Past: Perspectives on the Commemoration of Slavery from Africa, the Americas and Europe (Gad Heuman)Gert Oostindie, Inge Klinkers; Decolonising the Caribbean: Dutch Policies in a Comparative Perspective (Paul Sutton)Kirk Peter Meigho; Politics in a ‘Half-Made Society’: Trinidad and Tobago, 1925-2001 (Douglas Midgett)Linden Lewis (ed.); The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean (David A.B. Murray)Gertrude Aub-Buscher, Beverly Ormerod Noakes (eds.); The Francophone Caribbean Today: Literature, Language, Culture (Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw)Sally Lloyd-Evans, Robert B. Potter; Gender, Ethnicity and the Iinformal Sector in Trinidad (Katherine E. Browne)STeve Striffler, Mark Moberg (eds.); Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas (Peter Clegg)Johannes Postma, Victor Enthoven (eds.); Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817 (Gert J. Oostindie)Phil Davison; Volcano in Paradise: Death and Survival on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat (Bonham C. Richardson)Ernest Zebrowski jr; The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed Thirty Thousand Lives (Bernard Moitt)Beverley A. Steele; Grenada: A History of Its People (Jay R. Mandle)Walter C. Soderlund (ed.); Mass Media and Foreign Policy: Post-Cold War Crises in the Caribbean (Jason Parker)Charlie Whitham; Bitter Rehearsal: British and American Planning for a Post-War West Indies (Jason Parker)Douglas V. Amstrong; Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom: Historical Archaeology of the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands (Karin Fog Olwig)H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen; Een koloniaal drama: De grote staking van de Marron vrachtvaarders, 1921 (Chris de Beet)Joseph F. Callo; Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787 (Carl E. Swanson)Jorge Duany; The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States (Juan Flores)Raquel Z. Rivera; New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (Halbert Barton)Alfonso J. García Osuna; The Cuban Filmography, 1897 through 2001 (Ann Marie Stock)Michael Aceto, Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.); Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (Geneviève Escure)In: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG) 79 (2005), no. 1 & 2
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Ilkbahar, YN, G. Thordarson, IG Camarillo, and F. Talamantes. "Differential expression of the growth hormone receptor and growth hormone-binding protein in epithelia and stroma of the mouse mammary gland at various physiological stages." Journal of Endocrinology 161, no. 1 (April 1, 1999): 77–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1677/joe.0.1610077.
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Increasing evidence suggests that GH is important in normal mammary gland development. To investigate this further, we studied the distribution and levels of growth hormone receptor (GHR) and GH-binding protein (GHBP) in the mouse mammary gland. At three weeks of age, the epithelial component of the right fourth inguinal mammary gland of female mice was removed. These animals were then either maintained as virgins until they were killed or they were mated. One group of the mated mice was killed on day 18 of pregnancy and the remaining mated animals were allowed to carry their pups until term and were killed on day 6 of lactation. At the time of death, both the intact left and the de-epithelialized right mammary glands were collected from all three groups. Some of the intact glands served as a source of epithelial cells, free of stroma. The mRNA levels for GHR and GHBP were measured in intact glands, epithelia-cleared fat pads, and isolated mammary epithelial cells. GHR and GHBP mRNAs were expressed in both the mammary epithelium and stroma. However, the levels of both GHR and GHBP mRNAs were significantly higher in the stroma as compared with the epithelium component. This increase for both mRNAs was from 3- to 12-fold at each physiological state examined. In the intact gland, both GHR and GHBP transcripts were highest in virgins, declined during late pregnancy, and the lowest levels were found in the lactating gland. GHBP and GHR protein concentrations were also assessed in intact glands and epithelia-free fat pads. Similar to the mRNAs, GHR and GHBP protein levels (means+/-s.e.m.) in intact glands were highest in virgin mice (0.891+/-0.15 pmoles/mg protein and 0.136+/-0.26 pmoles/mg protein respectively), declined during late pregnancy (0. 354+/-0.111 pmoles/mg protein and 0.178+/-0.039 pmoles/mg protein respectively), and were lowest during lactation (0.096+0.037 pmoles/mg protein and 0.017+0.006 pmoles/mg protein respectively). Immunocytochemistry utilizing specific antisera against mouse (m) GHR and mGHBP revealed that the two proteins are localized to both the stroma and parenchyma of mouse mammary glands, with similar patterns of immunostaining throughout the different physiological stages analyzed. GHR immunolocalized to the plasma membrane and cytosol of mammary epithelial cells and adipocytes, whereas the GHBP immunostaining was nuclear and cytosolic. In conclusion, we report here that GHR and GHBP mRNAs and proteins are expressed in both the epithelium and the stroma of mammary glands of virgin, pregnant, and lactating mice. In intact glands, GHR and GHBP proteins, as well as their transcripts are higher in abundance in virgin relative to lactating mice. At all physiological stages, GHR and GHBP mRNA levels are higher in the stroma compared with the parenchyma. These findings indicate that the actions of GH in the mammary gland are both direct through its binding to the epithelia, and indirect by binding to the stroma and stimulation of IGF-I production which, in turn, affects mammary epithelial development.
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Borovskaya, Natalia F. "Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin for Santa Maria della Scala in Rome as a “Subject of Controversy”: The Artist’s Intention and the Position of the Clergy." Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological journal, no. 4 (2022): 190–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2022-4-190-219.
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The article is dedicated to the analysis of the situation that developed around Caravaggio’s painting Death of the Virgin (1606, Louvre, Paris). The priests of Santa Maria della Scala forbade Laerzio Cherubini, who commissioned the work, to place it in the family chapel for which it was destinated. The conflict is considered as a spiritual choice, namely the rejection of the meanings the artist expressed in his reading of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. In this context, the main iconographical typologies of the subject are here analyzed: the Assumption as the death of the Virgin and the Assumption as Her triumph in Heaven. The innovative features of Caravaggio’s painting are also considered here, as well as the possible spiritual reasons that convinced the clergy of Santa Maria della Scala to reject it.
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Zięba, Łucja. "Określenia Anny i Joachima w "Homilii na narodzenie Najświętszej Maryi Panny" Jana z Damaszku." Vox Patrum 50 (June 15, 2007): 413–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vp.6690.
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The article treats of terms concerning the parents of the Virgin Mary, that were used by John of Damascus in his homily on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Anna and Joakeim are here described with terms referring to religiousness, fertility and obtaining the fruits of the earth. The most expressions concern Anna and her maternity, whereas Joakeim is mentioned only when Annas name appears.
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Guo, Yueqin, Fugang Liu, Yulong Guo, Yingping Qu, Zhengyi Zhang, Jun Yao, Jin Xu, and Jilian Li. "Untargeted Lipidomics Analysis Unravels the Different Metabolites in the Fat Body of Mated Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) Queens." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24, no. 20 (October 21, 2023): 15408. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms242015408.
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The fat body has important functions in energy, fertility, and immunity. In female insects, mating stimulates physiological, behavioral, and gene expression changes. However, it remains unclear whether the metabolites in the fat body are affected after the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queen mates. Here, the ultrastructure and lipid metabolites in fat body of mated queens were compared with those of virgins. The fat body weight of mated bumblebee queens was significantly increased, and the adipocytes were filled with lipid droplets. Using LC-MS/MS-based untargeted lipidomics, 949 and 748 differential metabolites were identified in the fat body of virgin and mated bumblebee queens, respectively, in positive and negative ion modes. Most lipid metabolites were decreased, especially some biomembrane components. In order to explore the relationship between the structures of lipid droplets and metabolite accumulation, transmission electron microscopy and fluorescence microscopy were used to observe the fat body ultrastructure. The size/area of lipid droplets was larger, and the fusion of lipid droplets was increased in the mated queen’s fat body. These enlarged lipid droplets may store more energy and nutrients. The observed differences in lipid metabolites in the fat body of queens contribute to understanding the regulatory network of bumblebees post mating.
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Chapman, Demian D., Mahmood S. Shivji, Ed Louis, Julie Sommer, Hugh Fletcher, and Paulo A. Prodöhl. "Virgin birth in a hammerhead shark." Biology Letters 3, no. 4 (May 22, 2007): 425–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0189.
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Parthenogenesis has been documented in all major jawed vertebrate lineages except mammals and cartilaginous fishes (class Chondrichthyes: sharks, batoids and chimeras). Reports of captive female sharks giving birth despite being held in the extended absence of males have generally been ascribed to prior matings coupled with long-term sperm storage by the females. Here, we provide the first genetic evidence for chondrichthyan parthenogenesis, involving a hammerhead shark ( Sphyrna tiburo ). This finding also broadens the known occurrence of a specific type of asexual development (automictic parthenogenesis) among vertebrates, extending recently raised concerns about the potential negative effect of this type of facultative parthenogenesis on the genetic diversity of threatened vertebrate species.
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Halimah, Syaiful Arifin, Marwah Ulwatunnisa, and Meita Setyawati. "Semiotic Analysis in the Short Story "Ingan" by Heri Sucipto." Indonesian Journal of Contemporary Multidisciplinary Research 3, no. 3 (May 31, 2024): 467–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.55927/modern.v3i3.8817.
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The short story entitled Ingan by Heri Sucipto is special, namely that it describes the beauty and noble values of the island of Kalimantan, as well as a person's struggle to achieve their dreams. Therefore, this short story needs to be studied, especially the signs that provide meaning in the short story. The aim of this research is to describe the Index, Icons and Symbols in the short story Ingan by Heri Sucipto through semiotic studies. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. Based on the research results, there are semiotic elements, namely indices, icons, symbols and indexes. There are five data icons, namely the words wilderness, virgin, slender, berhanyut larung, and inner struggle. The index is 15, namely the words awesome, graduation, leaving, respected, seriously ill, surprised, made me realize, dislike, accept, marriage, emotion, sobbing, limiting, crowding, and crying. There are seven symbols, namely the words edge city, oil city, borneo land, lamin, apple city, simalakama fruit, and graduation
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Gribkova, Anna. "Paired compositions "Birth of Christ" and "Death of Theotokos" on monumental painting of the Cathedral of Nativity of Theotokos in Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery (1649–1650): the role in the programme and features of iconography." St.Tikhons' University Review. Series V. Christian Art 45 (March 31, 2022): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturv202245.45-63.
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The article is devoted to the origins of the appearance of paired compositions The Birth of Christ and The Death of the Virgin on monumental painting of the Nativity of the Virgin Church in Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery 1649–1650. The tradition of reproducing ancient programs that developed in the second quarter – the middle of the 17th century makes it possible to attribute the monastery cathedral in Zvenigorod to this practice. The presence of large paired compositions in naos find similarities with Russian monuments of the 12–16th century, rather than with paintings of their time. Both compositions are in harmony with The Birth of the Virgin on the western wall and The Praise of the Virgin in the central conch. The combination of four scenes reveals the main meaning of the entire program, which consists in the idea of the glorification of the Virgin. The scenes of the Life of the Virgin, located on the eastern wall of the naos, testify to their presence here even before the construction of the iconostasis of the 17th century. Meanwhile, the iconographic analysis of paired compositions brings them closer to the monuments of their time. Firstly, it is noticeable in the composition The Birth of Christ which is structurally close to the multipart icons of the 16–17th centuries. In the scene The Death of the Virgin there is a similarity with the temple icon from the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin of 1472–1474, and a veil embroidered for her in the 1640s. The results of the study show that paired compositions could be part of the old painting, while in the middle of the 17th century they, along with the entire program, were updated and supplemented with new elements.
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Ogden, Hannah J. P., Raïssa A. de Boer, Alessandro Devigili, Charel Reuland, Ariel F. Kahrl, and John L. Fitzpatrick. "Male mate choice for large gravid spots in a livebearing fish." Behavioral Ecology 31, no. 1 (September 27, 2019): 63–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz156.
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Abstract Male mate choice occurs in a wide range of species, and males can increase their reproductive success by distinguishing between females based on their fecundity (e.g., large body size) or their expected sperm competition risk (e.g., virgins). However, patterns of male mate choice could be mitigated by variation in female physiological receptivity, as males can benefit by directing their mating efforts toward females that are at a point in their reproductive cycle when fertilization probability is highest. Here, we perform three experiments to assess whether male mate choice is influenced by cues of female physiological receptivity, fecundity, or sperm competition risk in the pygmy halfbeak (Dermogenys collettei), a small livebearing fish. Female halfbeaks possess a “gravid spot”—an orange abdominal marking that is caused by pigmentation of the females’ skin and variation in embryo development and pigmentation during pregnancy. We show that gravid spot size increases toward parturition and is largest right before giving birth, independent of abdominal width or body size. Males consistently chose females with large gravid spots over females with small gravid spots. In contrast, males did not prefer larger females over smaller females or virgin females over mated females. As female halfbeaks store sperm prior to fertilizations, we suggest that males use the size of the gravid spot as a cue to direct their mating efforts to those females where the chance of fertilization is highest.
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Ismail, Althaf Adnan, Ahmed Hegazy Mahdy Sasy, and Mohamed Abdelraouf Hassan Saadullah. "Adhesive small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen in an elderly: a case report." International Surgery Journal 8, no. 9 (August 27, 2021): 2772. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20213612.
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Small bowel obstruction (SBO) is a major cause of morbidity and financial burden in hospitals around the world. Although adhesions account for more than 70% of SBO, they were thought to be less likely etiologies in a virgin abdomen. However, emerging evidence appears to challenge such a dogmatic approach. Here, we report a case of a 68 years old Maldivian man with a virgin abdomen who presented as small bowel obstruction secondary to de novo adhesions at terminal ileum. He was treated successfully with uneventful postoperative outcome in a government regional referral hospital.
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Sasser, Jennifer M., and Chris Baylis. "The natriuretic and diuretic response to dopamine is maintained during rat pregnancy." American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology 294, no. 6 (June 2008): F1342—F1344. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00067.2008.
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During pregnancy, there is a marked plasma volume expansion due to renal sodium retention. Pregnant rats exhibit a blunted response to natriuretic stimuli that signal via cGMP, and expression and activity of the cGMP phosphodiesterase PDE-5 are upregulated in the inner medullary collecting duct during pregnancy. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the natriuretic response to a cAMP agonist, dopamine, is maintained during pregnancy. Anesthetized pregnant ( day 16) and age-matched virgin Sprague-Dawley rats were used to determine whether dopamine-cAMP-mediated natriuresis remains intact in pregnant rats. Blood pressure, renal clearances of inulin and p-aminohippuric acid, and excretion of sodium were measured during baseline and dopamine infusion periods. Pregnant rats had a lower blood pressure and hematocrit at baseline than their age-matched virgin counterparts. Dopamine infusion decreased blood pressure and increased glomerular filtration rate and renal plasma flow in virgin but not pregnant rats. Dopamine infusion also increased urine volume, sodium excretion, and the fractional excretion of sodium to a similar extent in virgin and pregnant rats. These results indicate that a cAMP-mediated natriuresis and diuresis (stimulated by dopamine) persists in pregnant rats.
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Ningrum, Riska Surya, Antonius Budi Prasetyo, and Alfinda Novi Kristanti. "Celery herb essential oil in the formulation of anti-dandruff hair tonic against Pityrosporum ovale." Jurnal Kimia Riset 2, no. 2 (December 14, 2017): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jkr.v2i2.6197.
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Abstract Essential oil from Apium graveolens (celery), a species belonged to Apiceae, was isolated, identified, and tested its activity against fungi Pityrosporum ovale, fungi that cause dandruff problem. Essential oil isolation was conducted by steam distillation. The identification with GC-MS showed that the major compound of celery essential oil was 3-isobutylidenphalide. The anti-fungal activity test was performed using pure celery oil and celery oil added with virgin coconut oil (VCO) and paraffin oil that are usually used as components in hair tonic formulation. The bioactivity test showed that celery oil, whether in pure form or in hair tonic formulation exhibited excellent growth inhibition activity of Pityrosporum ovale Keywords : essential oil, celery, Apium graveolens, hair tonic, anti-dandruff, Pityrosporum ovale
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Peterson, Jeanette Favrot. "Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe: The Cloth, the Artist, and Sources in Sixteenth-Century New Spain." Americas 61, no. 04 (April 2005): 571–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003161500069327.
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It was in 1531 that, according to the apparition legend first recorded over a hundred years later in 1648, Juan Diego’s visionary experience of the Virgin of Guadalupe was miraculously mapped onto his tilma (tilmatli in Nahuatl) or woven cloak. This painted cloth, hereafter referred to as the tilma image, is said to be the same relic venerated today in the basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City (fig. 1). However, no sacred image is invented from whole cloth, to use a highly appropriate metaphor here, and the Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe is no exception. Moreover, its very materiality makes it vulnerable to the passage of time, the laws of physics and human intervention. As an object of human craft produced post-Conquest, it has a traceable genealogy within the combustible mix of art modes, mixed media and theological tracts found circulating in early colonial New Spain.
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Peterson, Jeanette Favrot. "Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe: The Cloth, the Artist, and Sources in Sixteenth-Century New Spain." Americas 61, no. 4 (April 2005): 571–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.2005.0091.
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It was in 1531 that, according to the apparition legend first recorded over a hundred years later in 1648, Juan Diego’s visionary experience of the Virgin of Guadalupe was miraculously mapped onto his tilma (tilmatli in Nahuatl) or woven cloak. This painted cloth, hereafter referred to as the tilma image, is said to be the same relic venerated today in the basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City (fig. 1). However, no sacred image is invented from whole cloth, to use a highly appropriate metaphor here, and the Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe is no exception. Moreover, its very materiality makes it vulnerable to the passage of time, the laws of physics and human intervention. As an object of human craft produced post-Conquest, it has a traceable genealogy within the combustible mix of art modes, mixed media and theological tracts found circulating in early colonial New Spain.
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Horsák, Michal, Jiří Novák, and Michal Novák. "Prales NPR Mionší – malakozoologický ráj v Beskydech [Virgin forest of the Mionší National Nature Reserve – a malacological Eden in the Beskydy Mts (S Moravia, Czech Republic)]." Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 5 (May 12, 2006): 18–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/mab2006-5-18.
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The results of a more than 50 years lasting malacological survey in the Mionší NNR are published here. The virgin forest of Mionší is one of the most important forest reserves in the Czech Republic and it presents the most preserved nature of the forest mountain habitats in the Beskydy Mts. Altogether, 62 mollusc species have been recorded there and we encountered 58 of them during 1998–2005. The molluscan fauna as a whole is characteristic for its high share of Carpathian species. Some of them reach a western limit of their occurrence there (e.g. Vestia gulo). The presence of virgin forest inhabitants (Macrogastra latestriata, Bulgarica cana, Acicula parcelineata) is of prime importance. Macrogastra latestriata, an index species of climatic Holocene optimum, has its largest population within the Czech Republic here.
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De Santis, Stefania, Marica Cariello, Elena Piccinin, Carlo Sabbà, and Antonio Moschetta. "Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Lesson from Nutrigenomics." Nutrients 11, no. 9 (September 4, 2019): 2085. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11092085.
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Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) consumption has a beneficial effect on human health, especially for prevention of cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders. Here we underscore the peculiar importance of specific cultivars used for EVOO production since biodiversity among cultivars in terms of fatty acids and polyphenols content could differently impact on the metabolic homeostasis. In this respect, the nutrigenomic approach could be very useful to fully dissect the pathways modulated by different EVOO cultivars in terms of mRNA and microRNA transcriptome. The identification of genes and miRNAs modulated by specific EVOO cultivars could also help to discover novel nutritional biomarkers for prevention and/or prognosis of human disease. Thus, the nutrigenomic approach depicts a novel scenario to investigate if a specific EVOO cultivar could have a positive effect on human health by preventing the onset of cardiovascular disease and/or chronic inflammatory disorders also leading to cancer.
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Durán, María Jesús Franco. "El mito de hero y leandro: Algunas Fuentes grecolatinas y su pervivencia en el siglo de oro Español." Verba Hispanica 4, no. 1 (December 31, 1994): 65–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/vh.4.1.65-82.
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El mito de Hero y Leandro no se relaciona con ningún ciclo heroico concreto sino que, como tantas otras historias, vive independiente del resto. Es posible localizar la leyenda en un entomo geográfico bien delimitado, el Helesponto, entre las ciudades de Sesto, en Ia ribera europea, y Abido, en Ia asiatica, y cuya distancia ya había sido fijada por los antiguos, casi con total unanimidad, en 1295 metros. Museo es el autor que nos relata la fábula con más profundidad y detalle, dedicándole al asunto un poema completo que consta de trescientos cuarenta y tres versos. Leandro es un joven residente en Abido. Hero es una mujer muy bella de Sesto, sacerdotisa de Afrodita que se mantiene virgen, ignorando el matrimonio y viviendo en una torre con Ia única compañía de una sirvienta.
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Sivaraman, L., SG Hilsenbeck, L. Zhong, J. Gay, OM Conneely, D. Medina, and BW O'Malley. "Early exposure of the rat mammary gland to estrogen and progesterone blocks co-localization of estrogen receptor expression and proliferation." Journal of Endocrinology 171, no. 1 (October 1, 2001): 75–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1677/joe.0.1710075.
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An early single full-term pregnancy induces a long-lasting protective effect against mammary tumor development in humans and rodents. This protective effect can be mimicked in rats by short-term administration of estrogen and progesterone hormones prior to carcinogen administration. The hormones of pregnancy are able to induce a proliferative block upon carcinogen challenge that is not observed in the age-matched virgin. We wished to determine whether carcinogen is needed to induce a paracrine-to-autocrine shift of proliferation in steroid receptor positive cells or if such a cell population already exists in the age-matched virgin mammary gland. Here we show that estrogen receptor positive (ER+) proliferating cells are rare in the developing mammary gland of the virgin rat but represent the majority of the proliferating cells in the mature (96-day-old) mammary gland of the virgin rat. As the majority of the proliferating cells before carcinogen challenge were ER positive, the ER+ proliferating cells in the mature mammary gland may represent the target cells for carcinogen-induced transformation. Importantly, prior exposure of the mammary gland to pregnancy levels of estrogen/progesterone blocked this positive association. This ability to block the proliferation of the ER+ cells may be one factor by which pregnancy induces protection against breast cancer.
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Zhou, Peng, Xiong Zhao He, and Qiao Wang. "Sons from virgin mothers produce more daughters in a haplodiploid mite." Systematic and Applied Acarology 23, no. 9 (September 28, 2018): 1869. http://dx.doi.org/10.11158/saa.23.9.13.
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Population size can be very small in the newly invaded/introduced site or front edge of population expansion where mates are difficult to find. This scenario can lead to extinction of a local population in many animal species. However, when it happens to a haplodiploid animal, individual virgin females may adjust their strategies to produce sons of greater reproductive success such as higher mating success and fertility, which may help increase the chance of establishment. Here we investigated how maternal mating status affected sons’ reproductive success in a haplodiploid spider mite, Tetranychus ludeni Zacher, a cosmopolitan pest of many crops. We show that virgin females laid significantly larger eggs than mated females, giving rise to larger deutonymphs and adults, but mating status of mothers had no influence on mating success and longevity of their sons. We provide the first empirical evidence in a haplodiploid mite that virgin mothers adjusted their resource allocations to yield sons that produced more daughters at a higher rate.
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Sasser, Jennifer M., Xi-Ping Ni, Michael H. Humphreys, and Chris Baylis. "Increased renal phosphodiesterase-5 activity mediates the blunted natriuretic response to a nitric oxide donor in the pregnant rat." American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology 299, no. 4 (October 2010): F810—F814. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00117.2010.
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Pregnancy is characterized by plasma volume expansion and renal sodium retention with loss of natriuretic response to atrial natriuretic peptide due to increased medullary phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5). Here, we determined whether natriuretic responses to nitric oxide (NO) are also blunted in pregnancy due to increased PDE5. Anesthetized 16-day pregnant and virgin rats were studied at baseline and during intrarenal infusion of the NO donor spermine NONOate (2.5 nmol/min), the PDE5 inhibitor sildenafil (SILD; 0.5 μg/min), or a combination. The right (noninfused) kidney served as a control. Intrarenal NONOate had no effect on mean arterial pressure (MAP); however, SILD reduced MAP in virgin rats, and the combination of NONOate+SILD reduced MAP in both virgin and pregnant rats. Neither NONOate nor SILD altered glomerular filtration rate. NONOate and SILD each stimulated sodium excretion (UNaV) and fractional excretion of sodium (FENa) in virgin rats, but the combination did not result in an additional natriuretic response. However, NONOate infusion did not increase UNaV or FENa in pregnant rats, but the natriuretic response to NONOate was restored with SILD, and SILD alone produced a natriuresis during pregnancy. Sodium nitroprusside (10−4 mol/l)-stimulated cGMP accumulation from inner medullary collecting duct cells was blunted in cells from pregnant vs. virgin or postpartum rats and was restored by treatment with the PDE5 inhibitor DMPPO (10−7 mol/l). Therefore, increased intrarenal PDE5 mediates the blunted natriuretic response to NO, and loss of responsiveness to the cGMP-dependent, natriuretic agents may contribute to volume expansion during pregnancy.
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Tagle, Fabian R. "Automatic virgin coconut oil (VCO) extractor." MATEC Web of Conferences 192 (2018): 01045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201819201045.
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Virgin coconut oil (VCO) is a vegetable oil extracted from coconut milk that undergone either of the following extraction method: natural fermentation method with heat or without heat, expelling method or centrifugation method. Research showed that the extraction of VCO using expelling method had the highest percent oil recovery with 88.35% and yield of 30-31% followed by centrifugation method with oil recovery of 86.62% and yield of 31% then natural fermentation method with 65.95% oil recovery and yield of 16.5-19%. Even with low percent oil recovery and yield, VCO producers here in the Philippines particularly in Quezon province still employs the natural fermentation among other extraction method of VCO due to its cost-effectivity. The natural fermentation method involves several manual scooping activities in removing the VCO from the other component of the coconut milk which also takes time of waiting for about 24 to 48 hours for the VCO to be fractioned from the coconut milk mixture. This research therefore, focused in improving the natural fermentation method by developing a machine that automatically extracts the VCO from the coconut milk with higher percent oil recovery and yield. The designed machine was evaluated based on its oil recovery, and yield with respect to the current method of extraction. Furthermore, the effects of temperature and maturity of coconut kernel to the machine’s capability of extracting the VCO were carried out. The tests conducted showed that the Automatic Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) Extractor had an oil recovery of 89.84%. The study also showed that the yield using the automatic extractor is 31.27%. It was also concluded that it is better to use the Automatic Virgin Coconut Extractor in the area with temperature of 35-37 °C and preferably good coconut kernel should be used for the extraction of VCO.
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Hutchinson, I. A., L. Shalloo, and S. T. Butler. "Expanding the dairy herd in pasture-based systems: The role for sexed semen use on virgin heifers." Journal of Dairy Science 96, no. 2 (February 2013): 1312–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2012-6126.
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Altmann, Simon. "Gabriel and the Virgin: The Secret of the Annunciation." European Review 24, no. 1 (February 2016): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798715000502.
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It has long been known that the vast majority of the Annunciation pictures show the Virgin on their right. All former studies, including one by the present author, treat this as a problem of left-right or mirror symmetry. This is not correct: this symmetry exchanges the right and left hands and such a transformation is not permitted: Gabriel, must always be represented as right-handed. That this is so emerged from the study of a database that we have created, which contains 1007 Annunciations from C3 to 1750. Details of this database, which the author intends to put in the public domain in due course, and of other results, will be left for a further paper. It is a sufficient example here that from C3 to 1400 Gabriel shows his right hand to the Virgin in 62 items out of 93, and the left hand in only two. Even from 1401 to 1750 the Angel shows his right hand to the Virgin 278 times and only 22 for the left. A brief pictorial study of the evolution of the Annunciation paintings from C3 onwards shows why the right-handedness of Gabriel made it easier for the painter to present him on the left. A summary table of the results obtained from the database is provided. This study offers some explanation of the fact pointed out in a former paper that sculptural representations of the Annunciation are often variant, with the Virgin on the left.
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Gailey, Donald A., Jeffrey C. Hall, and Richard W. Siegel. "REDUCED REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS FOR A CONDITIONING MUTANT IN EXPERIMENTAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER." Genetics 111, no. 4 (December 1, 1985): 795–804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/111.4.795.
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ABSTRACT Male Drosophila melanogaster that have courted newly-emerged males can modify their subsequent courtship behavior to avoid further courtship with immature males for up to 6 hr (previously reported). Here, it was hypothesized that such an experience-dependent modification would afford a mating advantage to normal males over males that carried a mutation that affects learning and memory. Coisogenic lines were constructed which varied at the dunce gene (dnc + and dnc M14 alleles) in order to test this hypothesis. Whether previously experienced with immature males or not, dnc + and dnc M14 males were indistinguishable in their response and mating efficiency when individually paired with virgin females. However, courtship performance of dnc + and dnc M14 males was different if they were first experienced with immature males and were then individually tested in an artificial population of nine immature males and one virgin female. In this situation, dnc + males spent much less time in courtship with immature males and achieved copulation in one-third the time required for dnc M14 males. As a control, the behavior and mating efficiency of courtship-naive dnc + and dnc M14 males in the artificial population was indistinguishable. In competition for a single virgin female, experienced dnc M14 males showed a slight mating advantage over experienced dnc + males. But when competition by experienced males for a single virgin female took place in the presence of nine immature males, dnc + males were the successful maters in three-fourths of the trials.
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Ashibokova, L. R., and N. G. Lapenko. "Peculiarities herb-bunchgrass steppes of Western Predcaucasia." Agrarian science, no. 9 (November 2, 2021): 89–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.32634/0869-8155-2021-352-9-89-92.
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Relevance. The article presents the materials of the geobotanical examination of the virgin steppes of the Western Predcaucasia. The relevance of the study is due to the modern state of natural grass stand, which is under constant anthropogenic influence.Methods. The research points are located in the southwestern part of the Stavropol Territory and the northeastern part of Karachay-Cherkessia, within the absolute heights of 500–880 m. The description of vegetation and its analysis was carried out on ten accounting sites (10x10 m) according to methods generally accepted in geobotany.Results. It was revealed that in the grass stand the grass familyhas on average 17,5% (its weight fraction is 70–80%). In the formation of grass stand plant associations, the leading role belongs to the dominant sod steppe-grasses: Stipa pulcherrima, Festuca valesiaca, Festuca rupicola, Bothriochloa ischaemum, etc. Legumes (Medicago romanica, Trifolium pratense, Onobrychis arenaria) are the main source of protein for animals, they are diverse and have on average 10,8%, but in weight terms they are inferior to sod steppe-grasses. The flora of the studied steppes is represented by a number of economically valuable plants. These are sod steppe-grasses — the creators of the main feed mass of the steppe. They are also sources of a protein component for animals. But the main source of protein in the steppe grass stands are representatives of the legume family (species Trifolium, Medicago, Onobrychis, etc.). Nectariferous plants (Filipendula vulgaris, Galium ruthenicum, Echium russicum) and drug plants (Adonis vernalis, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Thymus marschallianus, etc.) are found in the steppe. The spectrum of life cycles of the flora is noteworthy. There is a high percentage of perennials — from 66,7 to 97,8%. This fact indicates that the axes of ecological niches are packed relatively tightly by perennials — persistent competitors of annual plants (more often weeds). Until mid-summer the generative stage of development of wild plant species reaches on average 80%. Their gene pool can be recommended for the restoration of low-productive steppe grass stand, as well as for use in selection work.
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Jenkyns, Richard. "Virgil and Arcadia." Journal of Roman Studies 79 (November 1989): 26–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/301178.
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There is an obstacle to our natural appreciation of Virgil'sEclogueswhich looms as large in their case as in that of any poetry whatever. TheEcloguesform probably the most influential group of short poems ever written: though they themselves take Theocritus as a model, they were to become the fountainhead from which the vast and diverse tradition of pastoral in many European literatures was to spring. To use them as a model was in itself to distort their character: it is one of the greatest ironies of literary history that these elusive, various, eccentric poems should have become the pattern for hundreds of later writers. Moreover, the growth of the later pastoral tradition meant that many things were attributed to Virgil which are not in Virgil. Sometimes they were derived from interpretations which were put upon Virgil in late antiquity but which we now believe to be mistaken; sometimes they are misinterpretations of a much later date; sometimes they originated from new developments in pastoral literature which their inventors had not meant to seem Virgilian, but which in the course of time got foisted back on to Virgil nevertheless. It is hard, therefore, to approach theEcloguesopenly and without preconceptions about what they contain, and even scholars who have devoted much time and learning to them have sometimes continued to hold views about them for which there are upon a dispassionate observation no good grounds at all. No poems perhaps have become so encrusted by the barnacles of later tradition and interpretation as these, and we need to scrape these away if we are to see them in their true shape. My aim here is to do some of this scraping by examining the use of Arcadians and the name of Arcadia in Virgil's work.