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Determination of magnesium in cast iron
BUNSEKI KAGAKU, 1969 Magnesium in iron usually determined by either extractive, colorimetric or electrolytic method, but the separation of iron as ferric hydroxide is not preferred because of the interefering coprecipitation of magnesium.The author found that the coprecipitation did not occur at pH 5.56.0 provided that more than 200 mg of silver ion was present with 1 g of
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Sociobiology, 2016 Phenotypic divergence plays an important role in establishment of the reproductive division of labor among castes in social insects; however, little is known about this subject in independent-founding polistine wasps.
Thiago Santos Montagna +1 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
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"Caste and Wealth Inequality in India" [PDF]
In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 1991–92 and 2002–03.
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Ajit Zacharias
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
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Worker caste determination in the army ant Eciton burchellii
, 2007 Elaborate division of labour has contributed significantly to the ecological success of social insects. Division of labour is achieved either by behavioural task specialization or by morphological specialization of colony members.
Jaffé, Rodolfo +4 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Sex and caste determination in honey bees.
, 2019 (A) Sex determination cascade. (B) General roles of diet in caste determination. Roth and colleagues demonstrated that drones develop normal, large gonads when reared on a worker diet.
Alison McAfee (1392388) +3 more
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