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Plant Products as Biopesticides: Building On Traditional Knowledge of Vrkshayurveda: Traditional Indian Plant Science [PDF]
, 2008 Today there is a global search for alternatives to chemical pesticides and as part of this process there are various efforts to test the use and efficacy of natural products for pest control and crop protection. Our Centre has been involved in exploring
Arumugasamy, Mr. S. +3 more
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A study in the cognition of individuals’ identity: Solving the problem of singular cognition in object and agent tracking [PDF]
, 2007 This article compares the ability to track individuals lacking mental states with the ability to track intentional agents. It explains why reference to individuals raises the problem of explaining how cognitive agents track unique individuals and in what
Bullot, Dr. Nicolas, Rysiew, Dr. Patrick
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"Folk" Soil Taxonomy and the Partial Adoption of New Seed Varieties [PDF]
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1993 Traditional agricultural systems in less developed countries (LDCs) maintain not only the germplasm of local varieties of ancestral crop populations (landraces) but also the human knowledge and behavioral practices that reflect a long coevolution between crops and human populations.
Bellon, Mauricio R, Taylor, J Edward
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Food Chemistry International, EarlyView.Enterocin‐producing Enterococcus faecium RSCUDR7 from camel milk exhibited strong probiotic and antimicrobial properties, along with stability in skim milk. Its suitability as a safe and effective dairy starter highlights its potential for developing functional probiotic dairy products.
Rahul Singhal +4 more
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Whales, dolphins or fishes? The ethnotaxonomy of cetaceans in São Sebastião, Brazil
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2007 The local knowledge of human populations about the natural world has been addressed through ethnobiological studies, especially concerning resources uses and their management. Several criteria, such as morphology, ecology, behavior, utility and salience,
Souza Shirley P, Begossi Alpina
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Agronomy, 2022 Garden angelica (Angelica archangelica L.), native to the northern temperate region, is widespread in Europe and Asia. Since the middle ages, it has been used for healing and as a vegetable in traditional dishes.
Milica Aćimović +6 more
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Foundation Funding for the Humanities: An Overview of Current and Historical Trends [PDF]
, 2004 Foundation Funding for the Humanities: An Overview of Current and Historical Trends, finds that funding for fields such as art history, history and archeology, languages and linguistics, area studies, and the humanistic social sciences increased two and ...
Loren Renz, Steven Lawrence
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Monitoring mercury across the National Wildlife Refuge System using a biosentinel approach
The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.We measured mercury concentrations in 1,356 dragonfly larvae collected from 30 National Wildlife Refuges across the United States and found wide variability among refuges, spanning the full range reported for other protected lands. Using a management‐focused mercury impairment index, 80% of refuges contained sites classified as moderate or higher risk.
Jennifer L. Wilkening +8 more
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Typologies of the North: Mediating ‘Northerness’ in Jazz in Scandinavia
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2020 In this article I examine some of the ways that accounts of jazz in Scandinavia have been focusing on a taxonomy of features most often associated with folk music and the remote geography of the north.
Alexander Gagatsis
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Semantic codability in folk taxonomy: A cultural-linguistic perspective
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 A language definition is presented in the introduction without further detailed explanation, but it is given to show how language is viewed from a general perspective that encompasses most of its domains. Every word or phrase in this definition may rightly correspond to an independent branch in language studies.
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