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Family History of Elizabeth R.K. Draper
No full textThe Family History of
Elizabeth R.K. Draper
30 APRIL 2023
Elizabeth Rose Kaye Draper authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550 Your Family in History offered online in Fall 2022 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
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Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms
No full textJournal compilation © 2008 Blackwell PublishingRapid losses and degradation of natural habitats in the tropics are driving catastrophic declines and extinctions of native biotas, including angiosperms. Determining the ecological and life-history correlates of extinction proneness in tropical plant species may help reveal the mechanisms underlying their responses to habitat disturbance, and assist in the pre-emptive identification of species at risk from extinction. We determined the predictors of extinction proneness in 1884 locally extinct (n = 454) and extant (n = 1430) terrestrial angiosperms (belonging to 43 orders, 133 families, and 689 genera) in the tropical island nation of Singapore (699.4 km2), which has lost 99.6% of its primary lowland evergreen rainforest since 1819. A wide variety of traits such as geographical distribution, pollination system, sexual system, habit, habitat, height, fruit/seed dispersal mechanism, and capacity for vegetative re-sprouting were used in the analysis. Despite controlling for phylogeny (as approximated by family level classification), we found that only a small percentage of the variation in the extinction probability could be explained by these factors. Epiphytic, monoecious, and hermaphroditic species and those restricted to inland forests have higher probabilities of extinction. Species dependent on mammal pollinators also probably have higher extinction probabilities. More comparative studies that use species traits to identify extinction-prone plant species are needed to guide the enormous, but essential task of identifying species most in need of conservation action.Navjot S. Sodhi, Lian Pin Koh, Kelvin S.-H. Peh, Hugh T. W. Tan, Robin L. Chazdon, Richard T. Corlett, Tien Ming Lee, Robert K. Colwell, Barry W. Brook, Cagan H. Sekercioglu and Corey J. A. Bradsha
Purification of soul in R.K. Narayan's, The Guide
No full textR.K. Narayan is one of the most well known novelist in India who writes in English. He is well known for his depiction and humourous writing on Indian society and culture. R.K. Narayan is essentially a storyteller, whose sensitive, well-drawn portrayals of twentieth-century Indian life were set mostly in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. Most of his novels capture many Indian traits while having a unique identity of their own. The Guide, which is also set in the town of Malgudi is written in a simple style, unpretentious, and witty with a unique flavour as if he was writing in the native mother tongue. The story seems to depict the everyday life of the simple characters in a rather amusing and comical way. But at the same time one can‘t help to wonder if R.K Narayan, who is hailed as a master story teller of India, has only the motive of entertaining and being comical in this book. I belief R.K Narayan has a wider and rather philosophical message beneath his work. From pages to pages of this novel, I noticed how the author holds dear to the age old philosophy that underlines the core of Hinduism –the law of Karma. Therefore, to understand The Guide,one needs to understand the theological aspects of Hinduism. This novel actually takes the readers on a journey of Hinduism and shows how the transition and purification of a Hindu soul takes place through the main character, Raju. Narayan shows how Raju, a character full of flaws goes through different phases in his life to redeem his sins and become a changed person towards the end
Elevational range size and climatic variaiblity. Chan et al.
No full textData for reproducing the results published in Chan, W.-P., Chen, I.-C., Colwell, R.K., Liu, W.-C., Huang, C.-y. & Shen, S.-F. (2016) Seasonal and daily climate variation have opposite effects on species elevational range size. Science, 351, 1437-1439
Informetrics on M. N. Srinivas
No full textM. N. Srinivas, the well known sociologist is widely recognised as architect of modern Indian sociology and social anthropology. His publications have been analysed by year, domain, authorship pattern, channels of communication used. Keywords, etc. The results indicate that the papers published by him are of a nature that qualify him to be a 'role model' for the younger generations to emulate.
By the end of 1995, Srinivas had to his credit 144 papers which, included 33 broad papers in sociology and anthropology; 18 papers in social change; 28 papers in village studies; 12 papers on religion; 17 papers on caste and 36 papers of general popular interest. The periods 1958-61 and 1974-77, when Srinivas was 38-41 and 58-61 years old. were his most productive periods with highest publication activity
Gedenkboek ter gelegenheid van het tiende lustrum van de R.K. studenten vereniging "Sanctus Virgilius"
No full textDit Gedenkboek\u95Annuarium werd ter gelegenheid van het tiende lustrum van de R.K. Studenten Vereniging Sanctus Virgilius op 18 April uitgegeven door de Delftse Uitgevers Maatschappij in opdracht van de Commissie tot redactie van Gedenkboek en Annuarium. Het werk werd gezet uit de "Bodoni" en gedrukt op dool persen van drukkerij Van der Drift in een oplage van duizend exemplaren, bestemd voor de leden en oud-leden van "Sanctus Virgilius". / Behalve de gewone oplage werden gedrukt vijftien exemplaren op Imperiaal van Van Gelder en Zonen, genummerd van I-XV. / Het eerste exemplaar, in perkament gebonden, werd aangebod en aan Z.H. Paus Pius XII. De overige luxe-exemplaren zijn bestemd voor geestelijke en wereldlijke autoriteite
Macro-scale matter wave generation in charged particle dynamics in a magnetic field, a consequence of quantum entanglement
No full textMatter wave interference effects on the macro-scale predicted by the author in charged particle dynamics in a magnetic field [R.K. Varma, Phys. Rev. E 64, 036608 (2001)], and observed subsequently [R.K. Varma, A.M. Punithavelu, S.B. Banerjee, Phys. Rev. E 65, 026503 (2002); R.K. Varma, S.B. Banerjee, Phys. Scr. 75, 19 (2007)] have been shown here to be an interesting consequence of quantum entanglement between the parallel and perpendicular degrees of freedom of the particle. Treating the problem in the framework of the inelastic scattering theory, it is shown that these macro-scale matter waves are generated in the ‘parallel’ degree of freedom as a modulation of the plane wave state of the particle along the field concomitantly with the excitation of Landau levels in the perpendicular degree of freedom in an inelastic scattering episode. We highlight here the role of quantum entanglement leading to the generation of this macro-scale quantum entity which has been shown to exhibit observable consequences. This case also exemplifies a situation exhibiting quantum entanglement on the macro-scale
Other-languagedness in Stories by R.K. Narayan, Saadat Hassan Manto, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
No full textIn her article Other-languagedness in Stories by R.K. Narayan, Saadat Hassan Manto, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Biljana Djorić Francuski examines, within a comparative framework, the concepts of otherness and other-languagedness as expressed in three short stories by authors from separate but interconnected cultures: an Indian English writer, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan; a Pakistani writer, Saadat Hassan Manto; and a writer of European origins who lived in and wrote about India, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The author analyzes, within the context of the (post)colonial discourse, the instances of misunderstanding resulting from binary oppositions between the interlocutors, due to their mutual otherness
A Critical Study of the Autobiographical Elements in the Fictional Works of R. K. Narayan
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The Effects of Isolation on Agricultural Development
No full textTitle: The Effects of Isolation on Agricultural Development, Author: R.K. Smith, Location: ThodeAgriculture, as with any human activity, is subject
to an extremely wide range of influences. This gives rise
to complexities of a rather broad scope which must be dealt
with when investigating the agriculture found on any-scale ,
be it farm, county, province , or country. In any study on
agriculture. These complexities must be reduced somehow so
t hat the scale of inve s tigation a l lo ws enough in- dep t h study
to permit reliable conclusions . The purpose of this study
is to investigate the effects of one factor, isolation 1 on
agricultural development. Let it be hypothesized that :
isolation of an agricultural area will affect : i) the rate
and nature of growth , and ii) the present agriculture ".ThesisBachelor of Arts (BA
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