Cultural characterization and differentiation of nocardiae

1973 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 895-899
Author(s):  
J. B. G. Kwapinski ◽  
G. Horsman
Keyword(s):  
Growth Pattern ◽  
The Other ◽  
Species Differentiation ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Liquid Media ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Cultural Properties ◽  
Colonial Morphology ◽  
Semisynthetic Media

Cultural and colonial morphology of 120 strains of nocardiae had been determined in three different semisynthetic media. On the basis of ability or inability to grow in the most reduced medium, and of growth pattern observed in the other liquid media, the nocardiae were categorized in six cultural groups. The reproducible and clear-cut cultural properties are considered a useful criterion for species differentiation.

A Complete Replica of Contemporary Indian Society in the Fictional Works of Chetan Bhagat: A Detailed Literary Analysis of his Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center and The Three Mistake of My

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Vikram Patel
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Call Center ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Middle Class Family ◽  
Fiction Writers

hetan Bhagat is one of the most influential fiction writers of contemporary Indian English literature. Postmodern subjects like youth aspirations, love, sex, marriage, urban middle class sensibilities, and issues related to corruption, politics, education and their impact on the contemporary Indian society are recurrently reflected thematic concerns in his fictions. In all his fictions, he has mostly depicted the contemporary urban social milieu of Indian society. Though the fictions of Chetan Bhagat are romantic in nature, contemporary Indian society and its major issues are the chief of the concerns of all his fictions. He has focused on the contemporary issues of middle class family in his fictional works. All of the chief protagonists of his works are sensitive youth and they do not compromise with the prevalent situations of society. Most of the characters are like caricatures that represent one or the other vice or virtue of the contemporary Indian society. The author has a mastery to convince the reader about the prevalent condition of society so that one can easily reproduce in mind, a clear cut image of contemporary Indian society. The present article is a sincere endeavor to present the detailed literary analysis of the select fictions of Chetan Bhagat keeping in mind how the contemporary Indian society has been replicated in the fictions.

scholarly journals From reflex to reflection: Moving from the space of causes to the space of reasons and back

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 681-693
Author(s):  
Ariel Furstenberg
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Space Of Reasons ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Simple Picture

AbstractThis article proposes to narrow the gap between the space of reasons and the space of causes. By articulating the standard phenomenology of reasons and causes, we investigate the cases in which the clear-cut divide between reasons and causes starts to break down. Thus, substituting the simple picture of the relationship between the space of reasons and the space of causes with an inverted and complex one, in which reasons can have a causal-like phenomenology and causes can have a reason-like phenomenology. This is attained by focusing on “swift reasoned actions” on the one hand, and on “causal noisy brain mechanisms” on the other hand. In the final part of the article, I show how an analogous move, that of narrowing the gap between one’s normative framework and the space of reasons, can be seen as an extension of narrowing the gap between the space of causes and the space of reasons.

The five‐factor personality model in applied settings

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itzhak Montag ◽  
Joseph Levin
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factor Solution ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Male Subjects ◽  
Female Subjects

Two studies of the Revised NEO‐Personality Inventory (NEO‐PI‐R) conducted on two different applicant samples (one consisting of 539 female subjects and the other consisting of 396 male subjects) are reported. Factor analysis of the female sample yielded a five‐factor solution, highly congruent with the factors presented by Costa, McCrae and Dye (1991). Results of the male data were less clear‐cut, yielding four to five factors which were moderately congruent with the American data. The combined male and female sample showed again high congruence coefficients. Various minor deviations in the location of the facet variables are discussed.

Lexical Arguments and Information Types in Malay Oral Narratives

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-97
Author(s):  
Siaw-Fong Chung
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Core ◽  
New Information ◽  
Intonation Units ◽  
Locative Expressions ◽  
Transitive Verbs

The analysis in this paper was based on five Malay narratives of the “frog story”. In these narratives, the types of lexical arguments and their relations with information flow and topic continuity were analyzed. It was found that most narrators used one lexical argument in telling the frog story (e.g., sarang itu jatuh “the nest fell”). About 60% of the verbs in the narratives contained one lexical argument only. Some transitive verbs that usually require the presence of both lexical arguments were used with one lexical argument only when produced in speech (e.g., dia mencari ø di merata tempat “he searched (for) ø everywhere”). Objects were sometimes omitted, as their meanings could be predicted from previous context. Despite the omission of objects, transitive constructions still prevailed in the stories. The most frequently occurring lexical arguments were objects (O) (37%), followed by intransitive subjects (S) (29%) and transitive subjects (A) (27%). In addition, our results showed that new information in Malay was usually allocated to the core argument of the object and to locative expressions, indicating that most of the new information appeared at the end of a clause. On the other hand, topic continuity was held between the subjects in two continuous intonation units. This clear-cut division of discourse functions in the heads and tails of constructions was consistently found in the five pieces of narration. This observation not only showed how ideas could be continued in Malay oral narratives, but also contributes to the study of discourse structure in Malay.

scholarly journals “Does Community Make Any Sense?” A Semantic Analysis of the Term “Community” Among Albanian Immigrants and Italian Majority Residents

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri Mannarini ◽  
Alessia Rochira
Keyword(s):  
Community Psychology ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Albanian Immigrants

Bridging Community Psychology and the Theory of Social Representations, the study was aimed at exploring how the concept of community and sense of belonging to various communities vary across diverse ethno-cultural groups (namely, immigrant and native-born groups) and how the meanings and the experience of community affect or are affected by the relationships that each group establishes with the other group. Participants were 30 native-born Italians and 30 immigrants from Albania lived in an area located in the south-east of Italy. They participated in an open-ended semi-structured interview, which was analysed using T-Lab software. Results indicated that the concept of community and sense of belonging to multiple communities do vary across diverse ethno-cultural groups and that each group is cross-cut by multiple axes of differentiation, one of which is linked to the experience of inter-cultural relations. Furthermore, the findings indicated that the functions served by the diverse communities affect the representations shared by the distinct sub-groups and that the simultaneous orientation of individuals toward multiple communities stimulate the development of a compound and even conflicting sense of attachment towards them. Implications for acculturation processes are discussed.

Early Bantu Ethnography from a Philological Point of View

Africa ◽  
1930 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. v. Warmelo
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bantu Languages ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Compact Body ◽  
The One ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphFew of the secrets that Africa still holds from us to-day have, I think, such an absorbing interest as the problem of Bantu in its relation to the neighbouring families and types of speech. Taking the continent of Africa as a whole, we find on the one hand the huge, yet marvellously homogeneous and compact body of the Bantu languages, clear-cut in structure, simple and transparent in phonology, and, at the back of much apparent diversity, exceptionally uniform in vocabulary. On the other hand there are in Africa numerous other languages of various type, which differ so much amongst each other that they have not yet been brought under any but the very broadest of classifications. The essential points of these are as follows.

The complex of hand-made pottery from the watch-tower Kazan II near Uzunlar earth bank (morphology and technological analysis)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.Е. Клемешова
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Silty Clay ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
North West ◽  
South West ◽  
West Central ◽  
Technological Analysis

The paper presents the description of hand-made pottery from the excavation of the watch-tower Kazan II near Uzunlar earth bank in 2017. The tower is dated to the second half of the I c. B.C. Technological analysis of 92 vessel rims of was carried out, using the method developed by A. A. Bobrinsky. The information about the raw material and paste composing was obtained. The analysis results demonstrate two clearly distinguishable pottery-making traditions: one with the paste composed of silty clay and grog and the other, with the paste composed of silty clay and crushed shell. Morphologically, the pottery with grog is similar to the vessels from the late-scyphian sites of North-West, Central and South-West Crimea. Most of the big container vessels and some of the small pots are made according to this pottery making tradition. The pottery with crushed shell is similar to vessels from Polyanka settlement in morphology and paste. Most of the small pots, bowls and cultic and votive ceramic are made according to this pottery making tradition. The author supposes that the tower garrison consisted of members of two cultural groups who made pottery according to the abovementioned traditions. The group producing ceramic with grog might be similar to late scyphian population of Crimea.

scholarly journals Tissue composition and allometric growth of tissues from commercial cuts and carcass of Texel lambs slaughtered with different weights

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 2123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Carvalho ◽  
Luana Cortes Zago ◽  
Cleber Cassol Pires ◽  
Andressa Ana Martins ◽  
Rafael Sanches Venturini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Pattern ◽  
Early Growth ◽  
Tissue Growth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tissue Composition ◽  
Allometric Growth ◽  
Slaughter Weight ◽  
Muscle Tissues ◽  
Late Growth

In this study, we evaluated the tissue composition, the ratios between different issues, and the allometric growth of tissues from the commercial cuts neck, shoulder, rib, and leg, and of the carcass of Texel lambs. Thirty uncastrated male lambs born from single calvings were used in this experiment. Lambs were weaned, confined individually, and distributed into five treatments with six replications. Each treatment consisted of a predefined slaughter weight (T23 – initial slaughter, T25, T30, T35, and T40). The proportion of bone decreased linearly in the shoulder, rib, and legs, but remained constant in the neck. The proportion of muscle decreased in the rib, whereas in the other cuts it remained constant. The percentage of fat increased as the slaughter weight of the lambs was increased, for all cuts. In all cuts and in the carcass, bone and muscle showed early growth (b < 1), whereas fat displayed late growth (b > 1). The proportion of bone decreased and fat increased linearly in the carcass, and the proportion of muscle was not influenced by the slaughter weight of the lambs. The muscle/fat ratio decreased in all cuts, and consequently in the half-carcass, as the slaughter weight was increased. The muscle/ bone ratio increased in the shoulder, rib, leg, and half-carcass, but there was no significant effect on the neck. The bone and muscle tissues showed early growth, whereas the fat had late growth in the different commercial cuts and carcass of Texel lambs. The tissue growth pattern of the shoulder may be representative of the allometric growth of the different carcass tissues. An increase in the slaughter weight of Texel lambs leads to a reduction of the muscle/fat ratio, due to the higher deposition of fat in the carcass of these animals.

scholarly journals The effects of cutting regimes on natural regeneration in submountain beech forests: species diversity and abundance

2008 ◽  
Vol 54 (No. 12) ◽  
pp. 533-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Barna
Keyword(s):  
Natural Regeneration ◽  
Growth Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Beech Forests ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
One Year ◽  
Cutting Regimes ◽  
Cutting Intensity ◽  
The Given

The paper summarizes the results of 15-year natural regeneration for beech of five plots with different densities situated in the Western Carpathians Mts. Three of the plots were subjected to differently intensive shelterwood cuttings (plots L, M, H), one plot was clear-cut (CC), and one was left without intervention – as a control (C). The number of one-year-old seedlings decreased proportionally with increasing cutting intensity. The ANOVA results document a significant influence of cutting intensity on the abundance of both one-year-old and older seedlings. The abundance of beech seedlings was initially increasing with increasing cutting intensity, and, having reached the peak on plot M (medium intensity), there followed a decrease in the seedling abundance. Lower numbers of beech seedlings on plots subjected to less intensive cutting (C, L) result from less favourable growth conditions in comparison with plot M. On the other hand, cutting of higher intensity (H, CC) resulted in lower numbers of fructifying parent trees. The medium cut intervention having provided the plot M with stocking of 0.5 (50% of the stand) resulted in a lower number of seed resources (limiting factor for natural regeneration). However, for the other factor – seedling establishment (survival and recruitment) this plot (M) represents an ecological optimum in beech regeneration in the given conditions.

STUDIES IN FOREST PATHOLOGY: XX. INVESTIGATIONS OF THE PATHOLOGICAL DETERIORATION IN KILLED BALSAM FIR

1959 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Basham
Keyword(s):  
Moisture Content ◽  
The Other ◽  
Balsam Fir ◽  
Aqueous Extracts ◽  
Wood Substrate ◽  
Liquid Media ◽  
Marked Inhibition ◽  
Living State ◽  
Vigorous Growth ◽  
One Year

Studies were begun to assess the significance and interrelationships of five fungi consistently associated with the deterioration of balsam fir trees killed by the spruce budworm, and to explain the succession pattern of the fungi in that process. A yeast and Ophiostoma bicolor Davidson and Wells were the only fungi consistently isolated from the discolored cambium of dying or recently killed trees; Stereum chailletii Pers. and an unidentified hyphomycete, Fungus F, were the principal fungi isolated from the stained sapwood of trees dead less than one year; and Polyporus abietinus Dicks, ex Fries was the only fungus consistently associated with the rotted sapwood of trees dead for more than one year. A gradual and fairly regular lowering of the moisture content, pH, and strength of balsam fir sapwood from the healthy, living state through the various stages of deterioration was recorded. There was no evidence of marked inhibition or antagonism among the fungi tested in pure culture. Although the most vigorous growth of P. abietinus occurred in liquid media adjusted at pH 4.5, compared with 6.5 for Fungus F and S. chailletii, balsam fir sticks of about pH 6.0 were readily infected by P. abietinus in the laboratory. Sticks artificially infected with S. chailletii or P. abietinus developed a pronounced reddish stain and showed significant reductions in toughness, and the pH of aqueous extracts of these sticks was markedly reduced. The same properties of sticks infected with Fungus F differed very little from those of the check sticks. There was no evidence that either Fungus F or S. chailletii was inhibited by the presence of the other in balsam fir sapwood, or that the presence of either had any effect upon the deteriorating capacity of P. abietinus. It is suggested that the principal explanation for the succession pattern of fungi in the deterioration of balsam fir lies in a dependence upon changes in certain properties of the wood substrate, particularly in the moisture content of the sapwood.

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