Homebound: Homeground, and: A Coltrane Poem: 9 23 98, and: Meditation for Inese, and: An Umbrella of Maple Leaves

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-356
Author(s):  
Michael S. Harper
Keyword(s):  
Maple Leaves

scholarly journals The Image of BREAD in Lithuanian Dictionaries

2021 ◽  
pp. 257-268
Author(s):  
Irena Smetonienė
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Value System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Maple Leaves ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Main Meal ◽  
Intensive Work ◽  
Cultural Message

The bread in one form or another has been known to people all over the world. Linguistic data and rites show that the Lithuanians have been eating bread since ancient times. Bread is mentioned in the small-form verbal folklore, songs, sagas, fairy tales, beliefs and various rites. In ancient times the bread was personalised and deified. The examples from the dialect dictionaries were also included into the research because every dialectal saying is an example of cultural message, manifestation of tradition nurturance and preservation, a part of cultural heritage, which links the past with the present. The dialectal examples show, what is deep-rooted in the tradition, what is passed down from generation to generation, what lies in the traditional value system and what makes the essence of an ethnic group. Due to these reasons the dialectal texts have a huge public or cultural value as they denote a content that is significant to a certain community. Having completed the analysis of dialectal discourse, it can be stated that various dictionaries construct the following picture of the concept bread: bread is the main meal of people, it is baked from different kinds of cereal flours, it is respected and saved, it has healing powers; the bread baked at home is the most delicious; if there is no bread, a person starves; to have bread all the time one has to work hard because baking bread is labour-intensive work, which has to be performed with knowledge and love, to make bread delicious and fragrant, calamus, cabbage or maple leaves are put under a loaf of bread, it is decorated or marked with sacred signs; an individual equals bread with human activity and appearance; bread is a measure of life, a reference point for evaluating certain actions. The place of bread in the human life is reflected by derivates as well: special things, capacities for mixing, souring, baking, slicing or keeping bread; other meals prepared from bread.

Contribution of anthocyanins to the antioxidant capacity of juvenile and senescing sugar maple (Acer saccharum) leaves

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abby K. van den Berg ◽  
Timothy D. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Antioxidant Activity ◽  
Free Radical ◽  
Antioxidant Capacity ◽  
Acer Saccharum ◽  
Sugar Maple ◽  
Radical Scavenging ◽  
Anthocyanin Content ◽  
Additional Source ◽  
Stable Free Radical ◽  
Maple Leaves

Foliar anthocyanins are hypothesised to provide an additional source of photoprotection from photooxidative stress to the leaves in which they occur through their ability to scavenge excess free radical species. Although demonstrated to significantly enhance the antioxidant status of red morphs of fully expanded leaves of some species, the contribution of anthocyanins to the antioxidant capacity of the juvenile and senescing leaves in which they frequently occur has not been examined. Antioxidant activity of extracts from anthocyanic and non-anthocyanic juvenile and senescing sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) leaves from similar light environments was assessed using the stable free radical 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH). Anthocyanin content was significantly correlated with antioxidant activity in extracts of anthocyanic juvenile leaves but only weakly correlated in extracts of anthocyanic senescing leaves. In addition, the antioxidant activity of anthocyanic and non-anthocyanic leaves was equal in both juvenile and senescing leaves. Thus, although anthocyanins may contribute to the antioxidant capacity of anthocyanic juvenile and senescing sugar maple leaves, these results are not consistent with the hypothesis that anthocyanins provide an enhancement to the photoprotection available in either leaf type through free radical scavenging. The results suggest anthocyanins may be part of alternative strategies employed by anthocyanic juvenile and senescing maple leaves to achieve similar levels of antioxidant capacity as their non-anthocyanic counterparts to cope with the same set of environmental challenges.

Identification of Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) Feeding Sites on Sugar Maple Leaves

1991 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 1771-1773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Durland L. Shumway ◽  
David A. J. Teulon ◽  
Thomas E. Kolb
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Maple ◽  
Feeding Sites ◽  
Maple Leaves

scholarly journals Dynamics of Cu, Mn, Ni, Sr and Zn release during decomposition of four types of litter in headwater riparian forests in northern Poland

2014 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jerzy Jonczak ◽  
Agnieszka Parzych ◽  
Zbigniew Sobisz
Keyword(s):  
European Beech ◽  
Riparian Forests ◽  
Limit Values ◽  
Litter Bag ◽  
Black Alder ◽  
Northern Poland ◽  
Maple Leaves ◽  
Norway Maple ◽  
Oak Leaves ◽  
Site Release

Abstract The aim of the study was to compare the dynamics of Cu, Mn, Ni, Sr and Zn release during decomposition of leaves of Black alder (native material), Norway maple, Red oak and European beech (exogenous material) in the area of headwater riparian forests along the upper course of the Kamienna Creek (Northern Poland). Litter bag method was used in the experiment. Initial materials differed in terms of their chemical composition. Cu, Mn, Ni, Sr and Zn contents were low in general, and in fact, even a few times lower than limit values for decomposition rate. Different trends in the dynamics of the leaf metal content during decomposition were observed in particular tree species despite the fact, that every materials were exposed in the same site. Release dynamics was strongly affected by the content of metals in initial materials and in topsoil. Accumulation of Cu, Mn and Zn was observed during decomposition of poorest in the elements maple leaves, as well as Ni in alder leaves and Sr in the leaves of maple, alder and oak. In beech leaves we observed intensive leaching of Ni, whereas downward trends in the Cu concentration of beech leaves, as well as Mn and Zn in beech and oak leaves, were related to weight loss of the leaves. In some cases, the dynamics of metal release displayed a more complicated two- or three-stage character (release of Ni from maple and oak leaves; Cu from maple leaves; Sr from alder, maple and oak leaves; and Zn from alder and maple leaves).

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