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Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of Cyanobacterial Strains Isolated from Hot Springs in Oman
No full textIn this study, cyanobacterial microbial mats from five hot springs in Oman, namely Al Kasfah Rustaq, Al Thwara Nakhl, Al–Ali Hammam, Gala and Bowsher, were characterized using direct microscopy. Nine monoclonal cyanobacterial cultures were obtained and their extracts in butanol, dichloromethane (DCM) and hexane were screened for antibacterial and antifungal activities. Direct microscopy revealed the presence of 12 different unicellular and filamentous morphotypes, with different distribution in the various mats. Temperature seems to be one of the most important parameters that accounts for the differences in cyanobacterial composition of the mats. Cells of the nine isolates and their aqueous supernatants were subsequently extracted with butanol, DCM and hexane. Dried extracts were tested against nine bacterial (i.e. gram +ve Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis and gram –ve, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella choleraesuis, S. enterica, Psuedomonas aeruginosa, Providencia stuartii, and Acinetobacter calcoaceticus) and two fungal pathogens (Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium sp.). All isolates exhibited antibacterial and antifungal activities, which depended mainly on the type of cyanobacterial culture, type of solvent used and the pathogen tested. The highest antibacterial activity was observed in Phormidium species, and butanol was found to be the most appropriate solvent to extract bioactivity from these cyanobacterial species. The results of this study suggest that thermal springs in Oman harbor diverse types of cyanobacteria, which may constitute an important source of antibacterial and antifungal compounds. Further investigation is needed to purify these compounds and find their chemical compositions and modes of action
Analysis of Genetic Diversity Among Saccharum spontaneum L. From Four Geographical Regions of India, Using Molecular Markers
No full textContemporary Design in China: The Road to Modernity and Commercialization
No full text“China\u27s rising! The sleeping dragon is waking up!” It is common to see these kinds of headlines in the Western media about the recent development of People’s Republic of China. In the foreseeable future, China is expected to become one of the world’s biggest economic players. There is growing interest in the West about China’s economic boom. The government, private sector and individuals have been revisiting “design” (or Sheji in Chinese), and beginning to recognize its importance from product positioning to marketing promotion, rather than an evil ideology for Communism. This paper addresses the development of modern design and design education in China from a historical perspective with a focus on the interactions between tradition, modernity and commercialization. It reviews the formative years of modern design education development during the Republican period (1911-1945) and the most recent rapid expansion following three decades of isolation from the outside world beginning in 1979. The author exams the statement of modern design, a new modern medium, combined with a touch of arts and crafts, technology and marketing, is considered a Western import in contemporary China. This study investigates the cultural issues of design in a non-Western context with the aims at providing a contribution to the understanding of cross-cultural design and world design history
Arrival Ceremonies of Local Governors during the Song Period
No full textIn imperial China, when a local governor arrived at his new appointment, it was the custom for him to visit shrines that were important to local people and to announce his arrival to the gods. It has already been revealed in the research to date that these ceremonial visits took place at the Chenghuan 城隍 Shrine dedicated to the guardian deity of cities during the Ming Period, but it is not clear how the custom spread, became universal and was codified during the Song period. Based on a large collection of celebratory addresses (zhuwen 祝文) written by local governors for their arrival ceremonies gleaned by the author from the collected works of Song period statesmen, this article offers an analysis of at which shrines local governors chose to announce their arrivals, when this custom became common, and when it was made into law, all in order to show changes which took place from the Northern Song to the Southern Song Dynasty. The analysis reveals the following. The extant celebratory addresses for arrival ceremonies date back to as early as the mid-Northern Song period, and among the earliest there are few invocations to Confucius. However, this custom changed, after the precedents set by the great literary figures Su Shi 蘇軾 and Zeng Gong 曾鞏 during the reign of Emperor Shenzong 神宗 (1067-1085), to compose two addresses: one invoking Confucius and the other shrine gods. Then at the beginning of the Southern Song period in the 14th year of the Shaoxing 紹興 Era (1144), an imperial edict ordered that upon their arrival, local governors must visit the shrine to Confucius and the local government school before assuming their duties; and the author’s analysis of the addresses from that time on confirms the fact that this law was basically observed throughout the period. This change stemmed from a central government policy intending to incorporate some uniform symbol of the state, such as a shrine to Confucius or an altar to the God of Grain (Sheji 社稷), into the proceedings of the arrival ceremony. The central government expected the governors to maintain these facilities throughout their terms of office. The author offers this law as proof that the central government aimed to indoctrinate local society with Confucian ideology and make the ideology the basis of local governance. On the other hand, from the mid-Southern Song period on, local governors such as Zhu Xi 朱熹, tended to visit not only the shrines to Confucius, but also the many shrines to various former worthies, set up in the local government schools, showing that the arrival ceremony also respected the unique identity of local society. Therefore, the changes of the arrival ceremony are also indicators of the social changes that were taking place in those schools and in the functions that they were performing.journal articl
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Brecht and China : a mutual response
No full textThis thesis deals with the cross-cultural relations between Brecht and China
through an analysis of how Brecht responded to the traditional Chinese theatre and
how his drama was received in turn by modern Chinese theatre. It attempts to
examine the respective socio-cultural or political contexts wherein such kind of crosscultural
contacts were needed, and the consequent aesthetic-theatrical as well as
socio-cultural or political changes brought about by these contacts that have produced
two distinctively independent yet related forms of theatre.
It is argued that Brecht's search for a theatre style of his own amidst the sociocultural
as well as political crises between the two world wars made him look to the
East for inspirations, and his direct encounter with Mei Lanfang enabled him to
interpret the latter's acting in such a way that he responded to it with his postulation of
the alienation effect and modification of a gestic performance style. His repudiation
of the well-made dramatic theatre brought his epic theatre closer to the traditional
Chinese theatre whose aesthetic principles he shared in constructing a non-
Aristotelian episodic form of drama. In his experimentations with new modes of
theatrical expressions, he did not simply borrow or copy the forms and content of
classical Chinese drama; he appropriated, transformed and renewed them, for
example, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, for the particular purpose of instructing
audiences in a scientific age.
China! s reception of Brecht has had much to do with the country's changing
socio-cultural as well as political situations. Chinese theatre practitioners responded
to him because he was a politically, culturally and aesthetically suitable figure. His
epic drama provided an alternative style for the Chinese in their attempt to innovate
their realist spoken drama imported from the West, and was also introduced into local
forms of performing arts in hope that the traditional Chinese theatre could be
resurrected. Furthermore, he prompted Huang Zuolin to theoretically re-examine
Chinese operas, which the latter integrated with techniques of Brecht and
Stanislavsky into spoken drama to establish a new theatre style called Xieyi drama
The 3, 4, 5 literature : ideopolitical-moral education in Mainland China as a barometer of political and economic change
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