12 research outputs found
Encore Taprobane. A Propos du témoignage tardif de Thomaso Porcacchi (1576)
No full textAbeydeera Ananda. Encore Taprobane. A Propos du témoignage tardif de Thomaso Porcacchi (1576). In: Archipel, volume 49, 1995. pp. 125-136
Taprobane, Ceylan ou Sumatra? Une confusion féconde
No full textAbeydeera Ananda. Taprobane, Ceylan ou Sumatra? Une confusion féconde. In: Archipel, volume 47, 1994. pp. 87-124
Encore Taprobane. Giovanni Battista Ramusio y voit Sumatra et Immanuel Kant Madagascar
No full textAbeydeera Ananda. Encore Taprobane. Giovanni Battista Ramusio y voit Sumatra et Immanuel Kant Madagascar. In: Archipel, volume 56, 1998. L'horizon nousantarien. Mélanges en hommage à Denys Lombard (Volume I) pp. 199-230
Louis Monneron agent de la France à Ceylan
No full textAnanda Abeydeera : Monneron, a French agent in Ceylon (1781-5).
Ceylon, with ports in both east and west, accessible in all weather, and near to India, was considered as the main base for Suffren's campaign to reconquer India in 1781. For this purpose, the Mascarene authorities placed Jean-Louis Monneron in Ceylon as agent for the French nation. As can be seen from his instructions, the authorities appreciated his financial ability and his knowledge of Indian trade. He was to ensure logistical support enabling the fleets of Suffren and Orres to continue their campaign at sea as long as necessary without having to go back to Isle de France. His critical analysis of the situation in Ceylon and his recommendations for improving it are the result of his work and his observations. They indicate the role of a French diplomat in the Indian Ocean during the pre-Revolutionary decade.Abeydeera Ananda. Louis Monneron agent de la France à Ceylan. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°22, 1990. Voyager, explorer. pp. 25-37
Italian traveller and missionary: Odoric of Pordenone's journey to Ceylon
No full textDer Franziskaner Odoric von Pordenone aus dem norditalienischen Friaul unternahm gegen 1314 eine Missionsreise, die ihn über See nach Indien und China brachte. Nach zwölfjähriger Abwesenheit kehrte er über Turkestan, Persien und Kleinasien nach Italien zurück und diktierte seinen Reisebericht, der weite Verbreitung fand. Auf dem Weg von Indien nach China besuchte er auch Ceylon, das heutige Sri Lanka. Auf der Insel beeindruckte ihn die fremdartige Fauna, besonders die Elefanten, unzählige Giftschlangen, "zweiköpfige" Riesenvögel (vermutlich Nashornvögel) und Myriaden von Blutegeln zu Lande und zu Wasser. Wichtiger aber waren für den Missionar die Legenden, die sich um Ceylon, besonders den Adamsberg, als Ort ranken, an dem Adam und Eva nach der Vertreibung aus dem benachbart gedachten Paradies ihren Sündenfall beweinten. Odoric war mit vagen westlichen Vorstellungen nach Ceylon gekommen, die er korrigierte. Er selbst beeinflusste wiederum viele nachfolgende "Reiseschriftsteller", besonders den berühmten John de Mandeville
Die Reise des Johannes von Marignola nach Ceylon: ein Beitrag zum UNESCO-Projekt "Seidenstraßen: Straßen des Dialogs"
No full textRaki's mission to Romanukharatha: new evidence in favor of pliny's account of taprobanê, "N. H." 6.84-91
No full textEste ensayo se ocupa de la llegada a Roma de un cierto Rachias,
embajador de Taprobanê, según es narrado por Plinio. Querríamos
esclarecer algunos aspectos acerca del nombre Rachias, que podría ser
entonces el mismo que el Raki mencionado en las inscripciones de dos
cuevas en Sri Lanka. Es un nombre singalés que se refi ere a un importante
personaje contemporáneo de Claudio. Se puede, así, confi rmar, mediante
la confrontación con epígrafes singaleses, la historicidad del episodio que
Plinio había preservado. Así, examinando el origen singalés del nombre
damos valor a la narración de un historiador romano que la justifi ca.
Intentamos satisfacer nuestra deuda con Plinio refutando las acusaciones
dirigidas a él por algunos investigadores como Raschke, que dice que
Plinio es para el crédulo, acusándole de creer en historias de marinos y
presentándolas como verdaderos hechos históricos. Intentaremos, por un
lado, dar una interpretación de las fuentes epigráfi cas singalesas así como de
las crónicas que mencionan el envío de una embajada al país de los romanos
por el rey Bhâtikâbhaya; por otro lado, resaltar lo que está tras el nombre:
Rachias, citado por Plinio aludiendo a estas mismas inscripciones pétreas.
Como resultado podemos establecer una conexión entre los diferentes elementos, partiendo de los grafi ti bilingües descubiertos en el desierto
oriental de Egipto, que habían sido grabados por Paminis Heraklês Lysas,
liberto griego de Publius Annius Plocamus, cuyo nombre aparece en Plinio
en el mismo pasaje en el que se evoca al embajador Rachias. Se trata de
dar el valor apropiado a ese episodio, digno de interés en la historia de los
vínculos entre la Roma de los Césares y Sri Lanka.This essay is all about the arrival in Rome of a certain Rachias, an
ambassador from Taprobanê, as recounted by Pliny. We would still like
to clear up some facts about name Rachias which then, could be the same
as Raki mentioned in the cave inscriptions in Sri Lanka. It is a Sinhalese
name, indicating an important personage, the contemporary of Claudius.
One can thus confi rm, through a confrontation with Sinhalese epigraphs,
the historicity of the episode Pliny had preserved. Thus questioning the
Sinhalese origin of the name we will valorise the account of a Roman
historian justifying it. We will try to pay our debt to Pliny by refuting the
accusations directed at him by some scholars such as Raschke, saying that
Pliny is for the gullible, accusing him of believing in deep-sea yarns and
presenting them as truly historical facts. We shall try on the one hand, to
give an interpretation of Sinhalese epigraphic sources as well as chronicles
mentioning sending of an embassy to the country of the Romans by the
king Bhâtikâbhaya. On the other hand, to bring to the fore what lies behind
the name: Rachias, cited by Pliny alluding to these very rock inscriptions.
Following that, we could establish a connexion between the different
elements, starting with the bilingual graffi ti discovered in the eastern desert
of Egypt, which had been cut by Paminis Heraklêou Lysas, the Greek
freedman of Publius Annius Plocamus, whose name appears in Pliny in the
same passage in which he calls up the ambassador Rachias. It’s all about
giving the appropriate value to that episode worthy of interest in the history
of links between the Rome of Cesars and Sri Lanka
The factual description of a sea route to India and Ceylon by a Greek master mariner from Roman Egypt
No full textGlobal Research on Carbon Emissions: A Scientometric Review
No full textGreenhouse gases such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon dioxide have been recognized as the prime cause of global climate change, which has received significant global attention. Among these gases, carbon dioxide is considered as the prominent gas which motivated researchers to explore carbon reduction and mitigation strategies. Research work on this domain expands from carbon emission reporting to identifying and implementing carbon mitigation and reduction strategies. A comprehensive study to map global research on carbon emissions is, however, not available. Therefore, based on a scientometric analysis method, this study reviewed the global literature on carbon emissions. A total of 2945 bibliographic records, from 1981 to 2019, were extracted from the Web of Science core collection database and analyzed using techniques such as co-author and co-citation analysis. Findings revealed an increasing trend of publications in the carbon emission research domain, which has been more visible in the past few years, especially during 2016–2018. The most significant contribution to the domain was reported from China, the United States, and England. While most prolific authors and institutions of the domain were from China, authors and institutions from the United States reported the best connection links. It was revealed that evaluating greenhouse gas emissions and estimating the carbon footprint was popular among the researchers. Moreover, climate change and environmental effects of carbon emissions were also significant points of concern in carbon emission research. The key findings of this study will be beneficial for the policymakers, academics, and institutions to determine the future research directions as well as to identify with whom they can consult to assist in developing carbon emission control policies and future carbon reduction targets
Interphase chromosome positioning in in vitro porcine cells and ex vivo porcine tissues
No full textCopyright @ 2012 The Authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and 85 reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The article was made available through the Brunel University Open Access Publishing Fund.BACKGROUND: In interphase nuclei of a wide range of species chromosomes are organised into their own specific locations termed territories. These chromosome territories are non-randomly positioned in nuclei which is believed to be related to a spatial aspect of regulatory control over gene expression. In this study we have adopted the pig as a model in which to study interphase chromosome positioning and follows on from other studies from our group of using pig cells and tissues to study interphase genome re-positioning during differentiation. The pig is an important model organism both economically and as a closely related species to study human disease models. This is why great efforts have been made to accomplish the full genome sequence in the last decade. RESULTS: This study has positioned most of the porcine chromosomes in in vitro cultured adult and embryonic fibroblasts, early passage stromal derived mesenchymal stem cells and lymphocytes. The study is further expanded to position four chromosomes in ex vivo tissue derived from pig kidney, lung and brain. CONCLUSIONS: It was concluded that porcine chromosomes are also non-randomly positioned within interphase nuclei with few major differences in chromosome position in interphase nuclei between different cell and tissue types. There were also no differences between preferred nuclear location of chromosomes in in vitro cultured cells as compared to cells in tissue sections. Using a number of analyses to ascertain by what criteria porcine chromosomes were positioned in interphase nuclei; we found a correlation with DNA content.This study is partly supported by Sygen International PLC
