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Rana w językach świata
No full textIn accordance with the saussurean principle of arbitrariness of the linguistic sign the word rana has manifold senses in the languages of the world. From among numerous examples the author pays special attention to the Romance rana ‘frog’ and the Slavonic (in particular Polish) rana ‘wound’. The discussion concerns the earliest attestations of the word in Old Polish, modern phrases and collocations, cross‑linguistic literary and cultural associations and homonyms.Zgodnie z saussurowską zasadą dowolności znaku językowego słowo rana ma różnorodne znaczenia w językach świata. Spośród licznych przykładów uwagę autora przykuwa przede wszystkim rana romańska, czyli ‘żaba’ oraz rana słowiańska, zwłaszcza polska. Omówione są najstarsze wystąpienia tego słowa w okresie staropolskim, współczesne kolokacje i frazeologizmy, skojarzenia literackie i kulturowe w aspekcie komparatystycznym, a takżehomonimy
A Wellness and Hospitality Resort Inspired
No full textViolet Bloom Resort
By
Student name: Rana Alsalmani
Student ID: S19105838
Submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture
At
Department of Architecture
Effat College of Architecture & Design
Effat University
2025
VIOLET BLOOM RESORT: A Wellness and Hospitality Resort Inspired by Abha’s Jacaranda Landscape
By
Rana Yahya Alsalmani
S19105838
Submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture
At
Department of Architecture
Effat College of Architecture & Design
Effat University
@ Copyright by Rana Alsalmani, 2025
EFFAT UNIVERSITY
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Dated: August 2, 2025
Supervisor: Dr. Ibrahim Saleh
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AUTHOR: Rana Alsalmani DATE: August 2, 2025
TITLE: THE ARTS CORE: Visual and Performing Art School
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YEAR: 2025
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Abstract
This project is an investigation of design and construction of a sustainable resort in the mountainous area of Asir Region of Saudi Arabia that aims at achieving objectives that are within the eco-tourism and environmental stewardship setting of the Kingdom Vision 2030 agenda. With 18 o 10 38 inN 42 o 35 09 inE, the study area (or shortly, the study site) that borders with Abha, presents impressive topography, rich cultural context, and unrivalled natural landscape.
Two broad issues are addressed in the work, namely, the steepness of the land and the ecological sensitivity of the land. To address the limitations, a unique design has been used which complements the environment. Terracing, cantilever structural forms, and restrained earthworks are some of the techniques that build on the existing contours to raise privacy and comfort of the guests. The core sustainability measures, including renewable energy technology, passive cooling and strong water-saving strategies, will maintain the environmental footprint to be minimal and maximize energy efficiency.
The adherence to the local codes of building structures and environmental policies will provide balanced natural ecosystems and protection of cultural heritage. The conclusion makes the thesis argument that the modernized resort has attained functional and aesthetic goals and it is an attractive paradigm to be used in future developments of eco-tourism in the area.
Introduction: The current thesis looks into the viability of a mid-market resort in Abha, Saudi Arabia, which is a region that promotes scenic mountains and favorable geography, whose area as stated in Vision 2030. Chapter 1 starts the report with a project proposal, and this places the venture on a bigger context that is tourism potential in Abha and national structure of the country. The following chapters will then discuss the details of comparative analysis (Chapter 2), space programming (Chapter 3), site conditions (Chapter 4) and the final out come (Chapter 5) into storytelling.
Project Proposal: Chapter 1 provides the foundation of the Violet Bloom Resorts through the definitions of its concept, objectives, and rationale. The chapter puts the resort into a context of the tourism opportunities in Abha, remarks on its correspondence with Vision 2030, and reveals the conceptual premise of the design.
Case Studies: In chapter 2, two architectural precedents Zenubud Bali and PRY1 retreat hotel will be compared in a bid to inform the spatial, sustainable and experiential approach that will be pursued at the resort. The analysis points out the integration of landscape of the precedents, eco-conscious operations, spatial hierarchy and focus on interaction with the guests.
Program Development: In chapter 3 the functional zoning, circulation, spatial requirement and adjacencies are mapped out in the resort. Specifically, it also implements the concepts of circulation like the island model to promote the sense of difference between the public and the private spaces.
Site Analysis : The fourth chapter discusses the physical, cultural and regulatory limitations of the Abha site including its physical features (topography, climate, accessibility) as well as its cultural contexts. The location is considered to have a mild climate and topography is also a plus; the water sources available in the region, direction of the winds and proximity to the nearest airport are regarded as the challenges.
Design Outcome: Chapter 5 provides the last architectural design solution of the Violet Bloom Resort in plans, sections, elevations, and demands of the environmental systems. The project has a story behind the design, which traces the history of the progress of the project itself, starting with ideas and finishing on a polished scheme, which focuses on spatial strategies rooted in the experience of the guest
Stomach contents from invasive American bullfrogs Rana catesbeiana (= Lithobates catesbeianus) on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
No full textInvasive alien American bullfrog populations are commonly identified as a pernicious influence on the survival of native species due to their adaptability, proliferation and consequent ecological impacts through competition and predation. However, it has been difficult to determine conclusively their destructive influence due to the fragmentary and geographically dispersed nature of the historical database. An expanding meta-population of invasive American bullfrogs, Rana catesbeiana (= Lithobates catesbeianus), became established on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada in the mid- to late 1980s. An on-going bullfrog control program begun in 2006 offered a unique opportunity to examine the stomach contents removed from 5,075 adult and juvenile bullfrogs collected from 60 sites throughout the active season (April to October). Of 15 classes of organisms identified in the diet, insects were numerically dominant, particularly social wasps and odonates (damselflies and dragonflies). Seasonality and site-specific habitat characteristics influenced prey occurrence and abundance. Native vertebrates in the diet included fish, frogs, salamanders, snakes, lizards, turtles, birds, and mammals, including some of conservation concern. Certain predators of bullfrog tadpoles and juveniles are commonly preyed upon by adult bullfrogs, thereby suppressing their effectiveness as biological checks to bullfrog population growth. Prey species with antipredator defences, such as wasps and sticklebacks, were sometimes eaten in abundance. Many prey species have some type of anti-predator defence, such as wasp stingers or stickleback spines, but there was no indication of conditioned avoidance to any of these. Results from this study reinforce the conclusion that, as an invasive alien, the American bullfrog is an opportunistic and seemingly unspecialized predator that has a uniquely large and complex ecological footprint both above and below the water surface
Ranavirus ecology in common frogs (Rana Temporaria) from United Kingdom: transmission dynamics, alternate hosts and host-strain interactions.
No full textPhDThe ranaviruses (Family: Iridoviridae) are a group of emerging pathogens in
amphibians. Ranavirus(es) were introduced to the UK in the late 1980s and have
been associated with mass mortality events in common frogs (Rana temporaria) in
south east England. While the signs associated with the disease are well known in
common frogs, little is known about the ecology of the disease in any amphibians in
the UK. This thesis begins the process of the eludication of the ecology of the
ranavirus in common frogs. To test the two different hypotheses for the
transmission/maintenance of ranavirus(es) in North American amphibians,
investigations into the life history stages of common frogs (Rana temporaria)
affected by the ranavirus were undertaken. Eggs and tadpoles were screened using
standard molecular methodologies for the presence of the virus. No infections were
found in eggs (n = 720), one infection was found in a tadpole (n = 288), but adults
were commonly infected with the virus. A mathematical model was developed to
investigate if the ranavirus could be maintained in populations of common frogs
when only adult-to-adult horizontal transmission of the ranavirus occurred. Under
certain circumstances, the virus can persist for long periods of time when this occurs.
This is the first attempt to mathematically quantify the dynamics of a ranavirus.
The potential of alternate or reservoir hosts of the ranavirus(es) in the UK
were also examined. This permitted for the identification of new amphibian host and
for the isolation and characterization of ranaviruses from different hosts.
Phylogenetic analyses revealed that all of the viral isolates were genetically similar at
both loci examined.
Experimental work examining the association between ranavirus isolates
from different hosts in common frog and common toad (Bufo bufo) tadpoles was also
performed. At low doses, isolates from common frogs caused higher mortality in
common frog tadpoles than isolates from common toads. However, in common toad
tadpoles, no such relationship was observed.Queen Mary University of London Research Studentship.
Overseas Research Studentship.
Natural Science and Engineering Council (NSERC)of Canada Doctoral Scholarship (PDS-D3.
Amphibian Convocation Trust Grant University of London.
British Wildlife Health Research Grant.
British Herpetological Grant Society
Evidence for directional selection at a novel major histocompatibility class I marker in wild common frogs (Rana temporaria) exposed to a viral pathogen (Ranavirus).
No full text(c) 2009 Teacher et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Whilst the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is well characterized in the anuran Xenopus, this region has not previously been studied in another popular model species, the common frog (Rana temporaria). Nor, to date, have there been any studies of MHC in wild amphibian host-pathogen systems. We characterise an MHC class I locus in the common frog, and present primers to amplify both the whole region, and specifically the antigen binding region. As no more than two expressed haplotypes were found in over 400 clones from 66 individuals, it is likely that there is a single class I locus in this species. This finding is consistent with the single class I locus in Xenopus, but contrasts with the multiple loci identified in axolotls, providing evidence that the diversification of MHC class I into multiple loci likely occurred after the Caudata/Anura divergence (approximately 350 million years ago) but before the Ranidae/Pipidae divergence (approximately 230 mya). We use this locus to compare wild populations of common frogs that have been infected with a viral pathogen (Ranavirus) with those that have no history of infection. We demonstrate that certain MHC supertypes are associated with infection status (even after accounting for shared ancestry), and that the diseased populations have more similar supertype frequencies (lower F(ST)) than the uninfected. These patterns were not seen in a suite of putatively neutral microsatellite loci. We interpret this pattern at the MHC locus to indicate that the disease has imposed selection for particular haplotypes, and hence that common frogs may be adapting to the presence of Ranavirus, which currently kills tens of thousands of amphibians in the UK each year
„Rana” w językach świata
No full textIn accordance with the saussurean principle of arbitrariness of the linguistic sign the word "rana" has manifold senses in the languages of the world. From among numerous examples the author pays special attention to the Romance "rana" ‘frog’ and the Slavonic (in particular Polish) "rana" ‘wound’. The discussion concerns the earliest attestations of the word in Old Polish, modern phrases and collocations, cross‑linguistic literary and cultural associations and homonyms
Rana patilarga – Rana iberica Boulenger, 1879
No full textAnfibios - Orden Anura - Familia Ranidae en la Enciclopedia Virtual de Vertebrados Españoles, http://www.vertebradosibericos.org/. Versiones anteriores: 19-07-2005; 16-12-2005; 29-11-2006; 19-02-2007; 9-06-2009; 20-04-2011; 7-02-2014; 23-10-2014A comprehensive review of the natural history of the Iberian brown frog Rana iberica in Spain.Peer reviewe
Use of plan curvature variations for the identification of ridges and channels on DEM
No full textThis paper proposes novel improvements in the traditional algorithms for the identification of ridge and channel (also called ravines) topographic features on raster digital elevation models (DEMs). The overall methodology consists of two main steps: (1) smoothing the DEM by applying a mean filter, and (2) detection of ridge and channel features as cells with positive and negative plan curvature respectively, along with a decline and incline in plan curvature away from the cell in direction orthogonal to the feature axis respectively. The paper demonstrates a simple approach to visualize the multi-scale structure of terrains and utilize it for semi-automated topographic feature identification. Despite its simplicity, the revised algorithm produced markedly superior outputs than a comparatively sophisticated feature extraction algorithm based on conic-section analysis of terrain
Green Frog (Rana clamitans) calling habitat associations: Are males selecting calling habitat more closely associated with egg-laying or predator protection?
No full textSuccessful reproduction makes individuals evolutionarily fit but requires balancing costs. Literature suggests green frogs defend territories for breeding. Males will call in these territories to attract a mate. Unfortunately, calling may increase susceptibility to predation, requiring males to defend habitat with more protection. In contrast, females select the oviposition sites, potentially based on factors besides predation. Males defending habitat appropriate for oviposition may be more successful. We examined habitat for calling and egglaying to determine whether territoriality is associated with defending oviposition sites or protection from predators. Our results show that calling males are more closely associated with emergent vegetation, especially medium emergent vegetation, and negatively associated with open water. A comparison of the habitat at calling, non-calling, and oviposition locations suggests that there is no real difference between oviposition and calling or non-calling locations. However, calling locations had significantly more emergent vegetation (both medium as well as all combined heights) than non-calling locations. The oviposition sites had intermediate levels of emergent vegetation, suggesting that calling males may be selecting habitat more for protection than oviposition sites
On new populations of Rana holtzi and Rana macrocnemis (Ranidae: Anura)
No full textRana holtzi, which is only known from Karagöl at altitude 2500 m and Çinigöl at altitude 2600 m, was determined from Eǧrigöl for the first time at altitude 3000 m. Thus, the distribution range of R. holtzi in the Bolkar Mountains was extended. In addition. specimens of Rana macrocnemis were recorded from Seviçova (2500 m a.s.l.), located in the Bolkar Mountains near Ereǧli (Konya), for the first time. Furthermore, the village of Örtülü (Mader, Elaziǧ), where specimens of Rana macrocnemis were captured, is determined to be southernmost distribution point of R. macrocnemis. Mountain frog specimens captured from new localities were compared in terms of significant taxonomical features with regard to the literature. In addition, ecological observations of localities where specimens were captured were determined. © Tübitak
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