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Easter Island Foundation News
Get PDFThe Easter Island Foundation is pleased to have the opportunity to partner with University
of Hawai‘i Press to bring you Volume 32 of the Rapa Nui Journal. We are grateful to UH
Press for providing us with the opportunity to continue to publish the journal, the only
publication of its kind to focus specifically on Easter Island
The Kaselehlie Press
No full textVolume 19Digital issues of the Kaselehlie Press are made available here in open access with permission of publisher Bill Jaynes, who holds copyright. Any reuse besides that which is allowed under fair-use laws is subject to copyright. Current issues of the paper are freely available online via issue.com/kpressfsm. Hard copy back issues (through volume 21) are available at the University of Hawaii-Manoa Library -- location information can be found in the paper's cataloging record
Numeral Classifiers in Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna)
Get PDFThe Tai Lue language has a complex numeral classifier system in common with other Southeast Asian languages. Using data from a 344,000-word corpus of Tai Lue texts, this paper catalogues Tai Lue numeral classifiers and the constructions in which they occur. Like Standard Thai and Lao, the general inanimate classifier an⁴ and the animal classifier too¹ can substitute for specific classifiers, including classifiers for humans, when they host a demonstrative, adjective, or relative clause. Moreover, the human classifier, pʰuu³, occurs almost exclusively in these descriptive constructions
The Munda Maritime Hypothesis
Get PDFOn the basis of historical linguistic and language geographic evidence, the authors advance the novel hypothesis that the Munda languages originated on the east coast of India after their Austroasiatic precursor arrived via a maritime route from Southeast Asia, 3,500 to 4,000 years ago. Based on the linguistic evidence, we argue that pre-Proto-Munda arose in Mainland Southeast Asia after the spread of rice agriculture in the late Neolithic period, sometime after 4,500 years ago. A small Austroasiatic population then brought pre-Proto-Munda by means of a maritime route across the Bay of Bengal to the Mahanadi Delta region – an important hub location for maritime trade in historic and pre-historic times. The interaction with a local South Asian population gave rise to proto-Munda and the Munda branch of Austroasiatic. The Maritime Hypothesis accounts for the linguistic evidence better than other scenarios such as an Indian origin of Austroasiatic or a migration from Southeast Asia through the Brahmaputra basin. The available evidence from archaeology and genetics further supports the hypothesis of a small founder population of Austroasiatic speakers arriving in Odisha from Southeast Asia before the Aryan conquest in the Iron-Age
Đêm Giữa Ban Ngày
No full textDarkness in Daytime (a political memoir by a non-political writer) is written by Vũ Thư Hiên after his 9 years’ incarceration without a hearing, in relation to the ‘case of the Revisionists against the Party’. Most notable in this memoir is the honest confession of its author about the ideals he has once pursued and then given up as, in his own terms, “an illusionary paradise on earth”
Effects of Dietary β-glucan Supplementation on Growth, Innate Immune, and Capacity Against Pathogen Streptococcus iniae of Juvenile Pompano (Trachinotus ovatus)
Get PDFThis study investigated the effect of dietary β-glucan on growth, immunity, and resistance against Streptococci in pompano T. ovatus. Pompano were fed a control diet, and diets which included 0.10% or 0.20% of β-glucan. After being fed the diets for 3-weeks, growth rate, survival, blood parameters, and immunity were examined, and the fish were challenged with Steptococcus aniae for 10 days. At the end of the feeding trial, RBC, WBC, WBC:RBC ratio, and lymphocytes significantly increased (P ≤ 0.032), while monocytes significantly decreased (P ≤ 0.007) in fish fed 0.10-0.20% of β-glucan. Moreover, lysozyme was significantly higher (P ≤ 0.003) in fish fed β-glucan, while the phagocytic ratio was only significantly higher (P = 0.037) in fish fed 0.10% β-glucan. Furthermore, fish fed 0.10-0.20% β-glucan showed higher protection against S. iniae (P ≤ 0.002). Thus, a diet of β-glucan is recommended to improve non-specific immunity, growth in T. ovatus, and also to limit the adverse effects of S. aniae disease in this species
