The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions. The variety of subjects in her book is vast. Half the enjoyment comes from searching through the pages, discovering one new ghost after another. It\u27s all good hunting and good haunting. -- Rocky Mountain Newshttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_folklore/1011/thumbnail.jp

EFFECT OF AFLATOXIN M1, "A HYDROXYLATED METABOLITE OF B1" ON SPERM CELL QUALITY OF ADULT MALE WISTAR RATS.

The effect of aflatoxin on reproductive health takes a systematic approach as it indicates that a significant number of people living in the third world regions are exposed to these toxins due to the poor storage of grains. To expose the effects of aflatoxin M1 a hydroxylated metabolite of aflatoxin M1 Twenty four Adult male Wister rats were acclimatized and broken down into four groups, Test Group one (Two weeks exposure), Group Two ( four weeks exposure), Group Three ( Six weeks exposure) and Group Four ( Control Group). The Test Group 1, 2 and 3 were orally administered 7.2g/kg (LD50) of Aflatoxin M1 for the desired weeks of exposure and the sperm cell quality was assessed to determine the effect of Aflatoxin M1 on sperm cell quality in Adult male wister rat. The predetermined level of sperm cell quality is its ability to be motile as the motility of the sperm cell determines its viability. Group three had the highest presence of sluggishly immotile cells with very low progressive motility, followed by group, two and one, 37.5+ 9.97, 55.00+9.91, and 71.67+3.07 as against the control groups 85.8+2.17 with the highest significance at the group three which showed an extended exposure of aflatoxin m1 (p=0.05). This study links infertility and aflatoxin consumption, as the higher the doses the more spermatotoxicity is built which invariably could lead to sterility and azoospermia

Monitoring The Effectiveness In Eliminating The Trace Presence Of AOZ (Furazolidone Derivative) Residue In Penaeus Monodon And Its Products Undergoing Different Processing Regimes [RM666.F82 T161 2008 f rb].

Pihak berkuasa Malaysia telah mengharamkan penggunaan furazolidon (salah satu daripada nitrofuran utama yang ada) dalam haiwan ternakan. Due to its risk showered upon public health, Malaysia authorities has prohibited the use of furazolidone (one of the main nitrofurans available), in food-producing animals

Performing as a Firefighter: Reconstruction of Donald Trump's Speech on the Storming of the Capitol Through Depth Hermeneutics

TRUMP's speech of January 2021, by which he moved his supporters to storm the Capitol, caused wide-spread concern. However, the psychological mechanisms that enabled him to mobilize the audience in the service of his agenda are not sufficiently understood. Employing depth hermeneutics, a psychoanalytic method based on examining the effects of the speech on a group of researchers, I reconstruct TRUMP's address to reveal tensions between its manifest and latent meanings and account for its effects. I argue that his systematic use of falsehoods results in a reversal of the everyday relationship between manifest and latent meaning: In everyday life, socially acceptable wishes and fantasies are given voice and reprehensible ones are relegated to a latent level. TRUMP, conversely, relies on falsehoods to fire up his supporters by evoking socially objectionable concepts of life and to make fact- and reason-based objections to his claims unconscious. The fears and aggression fueled by the dramatization of the current political situation affect particularly, though not exclusively, those listeners who, due to traumas experienced in childhood, are susceptible to TRUMP's coping strategy of authoritarian conformity

Syntactic underspecification in Riau Indonesian

Indonesian is known for having a relatively simple morphological and syntactic structure. This is especially true of local varieties of the language, where contrast between categories found in Standard Indonesian is neutralized. In the Indonesian variety spoken in Riau Province, there is almost no morphological marking of grammatical categories and there is relatively free word order. Gil (1994, 2003, 2005b) develops a theory of Riau Indonesian grammar that has only one open grammatical category, which he calls S (Sentence). This means that there are no distinctions between categories like noun, verb, and adjective and no basic word order. In this paper I show that Gil\u27s analysis does not adequately account for generalizations in Riau Indonesian syntax. I argue that Riau Indonesian has the basic lexical categories of noun, verb and adjective. Based on these lexical categories, I show that the language has basic SVO word order. I argue that Riau Indonesian can be better analyzed in terms of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG; cf. Van Valin & La Polla 1997, Van Valin 2005) since RRG accounts for generalizations in Riau Indonesian more adequately. I also use Discourse Representation Theory (Kamp & Reyle 1993, Asher 1999) to show how discourse structure can function to aid semantic interpretation of Riau Indonesian syntax in an RRG framework

Feathers Flying: An Experiment and Subsequent Lesson Proposal in the Practice of Inclusive Design

This thesis reports the process and findings of an experiment to examine the affect of iconic product designs on consumers and retailers, and specifically how their preconceived notions of high design influence their perceptions of a new product. Consumers often experience an unquantifiable psychological attachment to products they have purchased, such as a favorite wallet. In addition, their knowledge of existing designs influenced their decision to purchase said item. Within the industrial design curriculum at universities, the opportunity to do a post-project evaluation of student designs against existing marketed products is not typically provided. In the experiment described herein, a serving set was designed and developed according to the design process practiced at The Ohio State University, with the aim of the product creating a psychological bond with its potential users that would make it competitive with comparable existing products. The evaluation phase included interviews with peers and a blind study with retailers who would potentially market the set, to determine whether the intended aesthetic of “high design” was achieved. It was concluded that although the project was limited in scope by budget and time, the results of the interviews and research consistently proved that 1) the success of a design rests in its inclusivity: a dialogue between designer and user that is expressed through the distinctive qualities of the product, including but not limited to the use of metaphor and abstract employment of familiar imagery; 2) not all design should strive for a “high design” aesthetic in order to be successful because of that field’s subjectivity and susceptibility to trends; and 3) the findings of the experiment have the potential to be presented as a two-day lecture integrated into an existing industrial design studio course.No embarg