Orality in Osundare’s Poetry: “WH-ASK” and “NP-WH-LET” Constructions

Two rhetorical structural types, characterised as WH-ASK and NPWH-LET constructions, derived from the Yoruba praise and incantatory poetic tradition, are identified in Niyi Osundare’s poetry. The syntax, though distinct and unique, does not violate the combinatory possibilities of English. Breaking no rules of the syntax of English, the syntagmatic patterns inevitably draw attention to themselves as characteristic habits of thought and modes of expression of the Yoruba people. The syntactorhetorical borrowing from Yoruba poetry represents the poet’s efforts at “domesticating” English or making it carry the “weight” of his Yoruba experience. The paper identifies a profound and highly rewarding interaction between the lexical and syntactic arrangements in the poet’s creative works, pointing out that no investigation of the oral dimension of his poetry should ignore the structural paradigm

Review of \u3ci\u3eWives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History.\u3c/i\u3e By Loretta Fowler.

Wives and Husbands will likely become a classic of ethnographically informed historical anthropology. From the moment distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowler\u27s work opens with its account of Little Raven and Walking Backward-a brother and sister born in the early nineteenth century who lived to see great changes- to its final pages, which offer at least ten new lines of research that scholars might do well to follow to correct errors regarding everything from women\u27s status under change to the reidentification process undergone by educated Arapahos returning to their communities, a wide variety of readers will find themselves engaged in a book impossible to put down because of the quality of its writing and its deft instruction at many levels. Fowler\u27s very last line sums up in modest fashion her central message: These Southern Arapaho stories offer a window onto the way history makes gender and gender makes history

Review of \u3ci\u3eWives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History.\u3c/i\u3e By Loretta Fowler.

Wives and Husbands will likely become a classic of ethnographically informed historical anthropology. From the moment distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowler\u27s work opens with its account of Little Raven and Walking Backward-a brother and sister born in the early nineteenth century who lived to see great changes- to its final pages, which offer at least ten new lines of research that scholars might do well to follow to correct errors regarding everything from women\u27s status under change to the reidentification process undergone by educated Arapahos returning to their communities, a wide variety of readers will find themselves engaged in a book impossible to put down because of the quality of its writing and its deft instruction at many levels. Fowler\u27s very last line sums up in modest fashion her central message: These Southern Arapaho stories offer a window onto the way history makes gender and gender makes history

Explicit Memory For Unattended Information

Explicit recognition memory of unattended information was tested in two studies. College students performed complex mental addition problems in the presence of distracting words, with instructions to concentrate on rapidly and accurately verifying the accompanying arithmetic answers. Then, they took a surprise recognition test on the words. Experiment 1 showed that a short exposure (800 msec) resulted in chance levels of recognition performance, whereas a longer exposure (1,100 msec) supported recognition barely better than chance. Experiment 2 addressed whether attended and unattended encoding are qualitatively different mental states or instead the same state, differing only in the degree of attention given. A state-dependent memory effect was observed, in which reactivating the same attentional state at the time of test as had occurred at the time of study had beneficial effects on recognition performance. This outcome adds to other types of evidence, which suggest that attended and unattended encoding differ qualitatively. It was concluded that unattended encoding supports an impoverished degree of explicit, as well as implicit, long-term memory. © 1989, Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved

Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthopology

For anthropologists and social scientists working in North and South America, the past few decades have brought considerable change as issues such as repatriation, cultural jurisdiction, and revitalization movements have swept across the hemisphere. Today scholars are rethinking both how and why they study culture as they gain a new appreciation for the impact they have on the people they study. Key to this reassessment of the social sciences is a rethinking of the concept of borders: not only between cultures and nations but between disciplines such as archaeology and cultural anthropology, between past and present, and between anthropologists and indigenous peoples. Border Crossings is a collection of fourteen essays about the evolving focus and perspective of anthropologists and the anthropology of North and South America over the past two decades. For a growing number of researchers, the realities of working in the Americas have changed the distinctions between being a “Latin,” “North,” or “Native” Americanist as these researchers turn their interests and expertise simultaneously homeward and out across the globe

Nutritional narratives: cultural and communications perspectives on plant-based diets

This paper responds to a range of popular materials circulating in the public sphere asserting a plant-based (PB) diet is of benefit to humans and a protection against many chronic diseases. Although directed at a lay audience, books such as The China Study (Campbell & Campbell) are based upon extensive academic research, and highlight multiple health, environmental and social advantages of PB diets over traditional western diets. Arguments advocating PB nutrition, however, generally struggle to achieve traction in the public sphere. Narratives around PB food choices, and difficulties in shifting mainstream eating patterns, reflect the cultural symbolism attached to food, and the significance of food as an economic commodity. Moreover, the ‘expert’ status of the medical establishment privileges medical interventions over preventative PB approaches. This paper applies Cultural Studies and Health Communications perspectives to investigate bottlenecks preventing the adoption of a PD diet by a wider cross-section of the population

Evaluation of Growth Performance of Tomato in Response to Biochar and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (Amf) Inoculation

Field experiment was conducted in 2013 and 2014 to evaluate growth performance of two tomato genotypes in response to biochar application and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) inoculation at the Teaching and Research Farm, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. The experiment was laid out in a split-split plot design with two tomato genotypes in the main plots, five levels of biochar application in the sub plots and two levels of AMF inoculation in the sub-sub plots. Data on plant height number of leaves and dry matter yields were generated and subjected to analysis of variance and significant means separated using Duncan’s Multiple Range Test at 5 % level of significance. The result shows that mycorrhizal inoculation significantly increased (p< 0.05) the shoot dry matter yield (2935.8 kg ha-1) when compared with non-mycorrhizal plants, there is no significant difference in number of leaves, height and root dry matter yield. Application of 20 t ha-1 of biochar significantly increased (p< 0.05) the shoot dry matter yields and plant height while no significant differences were observed in number of leaves and root dry matter yield. From the results obtained it can be concluded that AMF can successfully be inoculated into biochar amended soil to improve the performance of tomato plant.Keywords: Biochar; AMF; inoculation; tomato; growth performance

Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Matematika melalui Media Realita di Sekolah Dasar

The benefit matematic reality media to study result of fifth grader student in SDN 06 Dapan, Ledo subdistrict, Bengkayang regency . The purpose of this research is to know the benefit reality media to study result of fifth grader student in SDN 06 Dapan, Ledo subdistrict, Bengkayang regency. The research method used Classroom Research with two cycle to comprise planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. encode for processing research of source its if the student learning product to achieve even 75.The implementation encode for processing research learning is student in abbrevation find and establish long square at I cycle average 73,33 at the II cycle be advance 96,66. from the research can have as a conclusion the benefit matematic reality can study result increase student

Sustaining online communities in the charitable health sector: how to keep a good thing going

What happens when an online community part-funded by a competitive grant process in partnership with a relevant charitable organisation reaches its use-by date? What reasons might an organisation have for continuing (or not) to support the community and its future development? How is ‘ownership’ transferred from the research institution to the not-forprofit organisation, along with any possible risks? These are all good questions: not least because it seems that most communities in this position are not ‘adopted’ by their not-forprofit sponsors, but languish on the sidelines waiting for a benefactor to pick up the potential costs and risks. This paper explores the Australian experience of forming online communities to support notfor- profit organisations’ user populations, and then finding the sponsoring organisation hesitating to adopt the project after the research has successfully demonstrated need and demand. It identifies drivers and inhibitors affecting the decision to support, neglect or abandon online communities

TESTING FOR MULTIPLE UPPER OUTLIERS IN DISTRIBUTION SAMPLES: A STUDY OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE DATA

In this study, the existences of k-upper outliers are investigated in distribution samples of gamma, Normal and exponential by carrying out a simulation of ten thousand at different values of n using algorithm introduced by Tietjen-Moore, test statistics, and critical values were equally estimated from the algorithm. A Normal Q-Q plot was made which aims at distinguishing a data set that follows a normal distribution and one that deviates from normality. The algorithm was applied to Nigeria-US dollars foreign exchange rate, both on raw and logarithmic transformed data. The simulation study reveals the existence of upper outliers more in Gamma and exponential samples than the Normal sample. Empirical analysis shows that there are upper outliers in the raw data set but no upper outliers are found in the transformed data. The result in this paper would help the researcher in business and economics to take time to explore data before use and properly transform accordingly to avoid error in estimation