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Magyar építészek Dél-Ázsiában és közvetítőszerepük a magyar építészetben
Modern Geográfia, 2022 The role of oriental art was significant in architecture at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. While the Art Nouveau movement in Western Europe was influenced by the Japanese and Persian art, Hungary made efforts to find the origin of the Hungarian ...
Baldavári, Eszter
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An Untapped and Undocumented Butterfly Diversity in a Rapidly Urbanizing and Fragmenting Forest Habitat in Pokhara, Nepal: First Checklist and Implications for Conservation and Ecotourism. [PDF]
Ecol EvolDocumenting indicator taxa such as butterflies is crucial in biodiversity hotspots such as the Himalayas, particularly in rapidly urbanizing areas such as Pokhara, Nepal. This study recorded 225 butterfly species in the Methlang Forest area of Lakeside, Pokhara, including new and long‐absent national records.
Kc S.
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Caste, 2020 In 1832, a woman named Caṅkari Nāki died in Ceylon, and her descendants have been haunted by a curse ever since. One of the first converts of the American Ceylon Mission, Nāki was part of an enslaved caste community unique to the island, and one of the ...
Mark E. Balmforth
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Progress in Disaster Science, 2022 COVID-19 has showcased the systematic nature of risks. Its effects have spanned beyond the health sector causing severe economic disruptions. Sri Lanka's GDP contracted by 3.6% in 2020 from a 2.3% growth in 2019, reflecting the largest economic downturn ...
Naduni Jayasinghe +7 more
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New earthworm records from several Indian Ocean islands (Clitellata, Megadrili) [PDF]
Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis, 2019 Elaboration of the earthworm material collected on the Seychelles, Mauritius, Réunion, Mayotte and Sri Lanka islands resulted in recording 20 species altogether. Among them, the ocnerodrilid Maheina braueri (Michaelsen, 1897) endemic to Mahé (Seychelles)
Szederjesi, Tímea +2 more
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Rewriting the history of leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka: An untold story since 1904. [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2022 Leishmaniasis is widely considered a disease that emerged in Sri Lanka in the 1990s. However, a comprehensive case report from 1904 suggests that the presence of Leishmaniasis was well demonstrated in Sri Lanka long before that. The Annual Administration
Nuwangi H +5 more
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Türkiyat Mecmuası, 2022 Nominalized with various names such as Serendib and Ceylon in the past, drawing an analogy of the “Teardrop of India” due to its geographical shape and location, Sri Lanka is a small island state located in the vicinity of southern India.
Ekrem Saltık
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Relationship between Environmental Covariates and Ceylon Tea Cultivation in Sri Lanka
Agronomy, 2020 How the current distribution of tea cultivation is influenced by specific environmental conditions in Sri Lanka is yet to be explored. Therefore, this study aims to assess the differences between tea and non-tea growing areas with respect to climatic and
S. Jayasinghe, L. Kumar, M. K. Hasan
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Molecules, 2021 Gastrointestinal tract infection caused by Helicobacter pylori is a common virulent disease found worldwide, and the infection rate is much higher in developing countries than in developed ones. In the pathogenesis of H.
Ishani P. Kalatuwawege +2 more
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From Batticaloa via Basel to Berlin. Transimperial Science in Ceylon and Beyond around 1900
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2020 Recent historiographies of ‘Science and Empire’ have successfully critiqued older euro-centric narratives. They highlighted how science was ‘co-produced’ through interactions between knowledgeable European and non-European actors in colonial ‘contact ...
B. Schär
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