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THE PORTUGUESE CONTRIBUTION TO SOUTH AFRICAN TOPONOMY
No full textIn hierdie artikel weergee dr. Raper, verbonde aan die Onomastiese Navorsingsentrum van die RGN, die reise van die onverskrokke Portugese seevaarders, ondermeer Dias en Da Gama, en die plekname wat hulle agtergelaat het. Na 'n deeglike bespreking van 'n paar van hierdie name kom dr. Raper tot die gevolgtrekking dat hierdie name, op grond daarvan dat hulle die eerste name in suider Afrika was wat deur Europeërs nagelaat is, van belang is vanuit 'n kulturele, historiese en Iinguïstiese oogpunt.</p
21st-century scholarship and Wikipedia
No full textWikipedia, the world’s fifth most-used Web site, is a good illustration of the growing credibility of online resources. In his article in Ariadne earlier this year, “Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Academic Acceptance”, Brian Whalley described the debates around accuracy and review, in the context of geology. He concluded that ‘If Wikipedia is the first port of call, as it already seems to be, for information requirement traffic, then there is a commitment to build on Open Educational Resources (OERs) of various kinds and improve their quality.’ In a similar approach to the Geological Society event that Whalley describes, Sarah Fahmy of JISC worked with Wikimedia and the British Library on a World War One (WWI) Editathon. There is a rich discourse about the way that academics relate to Wikipedia
[[alternative]]A survey of dictyostelid cellular slime molds in Taoyuan County, Taiwan
No full text[[abstract]]Samples were collected under forest soils from Ta-kuan-shan, Hsio-wu-lai, Shih-men Reservoir, Hu-tou-shan and Ta-tung-shan areas in Taoyuan County, during July 1999 to Auguest 2001. Some isolates of dictyostelid cellular slime molds were obtained. They were identified as one family, two genera, and ten species, namely: Dictyostelium macrocephalum Hagiwara, Yeh et Chien, D. brefeldianum Hagiwara, D. purpureum Olive, D. rhizopodium Raper et Fennell, D. delicatum Hagiwara, D. coeruleo-stipes Raper et Fennell, D. minutum Raper, D. clavatum Hagiwara, Polysphondylium pallidum Olive and P. violaceum Brefeld. Among them, D. coeruleo-stipes Raper et Fennell, D. minutum Raper and D. clavatum Hagiwara were reported as new records to Taiwan.
The distribution and frequency of occurrence of these ten species were also determined. P. pallidum Olive and D. purpureum Olive are widely distributed in Taoyuan County.
These species were described and illustrated in this text. Pure cultures are maintained and can be used as biological teaching materials for the middle high schools in Taiwan.
Catalogue of the Pāli printed books in the India Office Library
No full textThe present catalogue includes all the Pali texts and translations from the Pali, whether in Sinhalese, Burmese, Devanagari, Thai, Bengali or romanised scripts, held by the India Office Library. (Burmese nissaya books, Pali texts in which each phrase is followed by its Burmese translation, are included in a separate catalogue as yet unpublished.) Approximately 1600 titles are included, the earliest being Tumour’s edition of the Maha-vamsa, chs 1-20, published in Ceylon in 1836. Judged by the timescale of western scholarship applied to other languages of South Asia this may seem relatively late for a first milestone. It must be remembered however that this was only a decade after the virtual discovery by a handful of western scholars that Ceylon possesses a rich chronicle history preserved in manuscript, and some twelve years before the earliest attempt at a bibliography of Pali and Sinhalese books by the Reverend Spence Hardy in 1848.
The subsequent diffusion of the Pali scriptures has been achieved, in this country, most notably by the publications of the Pali Text Society, founded in 1881; while contributions have been made, on a smaller scale, by the Simon Hewavitarne Bequest Series, the Nalanda Devanagari Pali Series, and the Union Buddha Sasana Council in Rangoon. While the collection as a whole is strong in nineteenth and early twentieth century text editions, the acquisition of Pali books from South and South East Asia, particularly the non-canonical texts published in small print-runs, has proved difficult since the cession of the (Indian) Press and Registration of Books Act in 1948. This Act, passed in 1867, meant that the Library could acquire by copyright requisition any work printed or lithographed in Burma as well as India. Whereas the Sanskrit and Persian collections benefited from the patronage of oriental scholarship by servants of the East India Company who had begun to acquire books and com¬mission manuscript copies well before the Library’s foundation in 1801, there was no such prolonged British presence in the countries where Theravada Buddhism was and is still practised. Indeed except for the brief spell 1796-1802 Ceylon was governed by the Colonial Office, not by the East India Company or its successors, to whose Library these books belonged, during its comparatively short period of British administration.
The decision to publish what was then a catalogue on cards of the Pali books in the India Office Library was taken some twenty years ago. Since then the job of editing the entries to establish consistency has been undertaken sporadically, much of the preliminary retyping having been done by Mr T C H Raper, Assistant Keeper in charge of the collections in Classical Indian Languages from 1963 to 1970, and carried through to completion by his successor Mr M J C O’Keefe.
The form of the Catalogue is as follows: main entry under title, with cross- references from alternative titles, author, editor, compiler, series, commentary, commentator. Capitals are employed for titles, alternative titles and commentaries wherever they may occur (i.e. either as entry word or in the body of an entry). Italics are used for see-type, ed. and etc. references, for the distinguishing epithets of authors (e.g. Dhammapala of Badaratittha Vihara), and for the name of non- Roman scripts. When it is necessary to classify the different forms of a major classical text a preliminary note is given, printed in bold, and inset, under the name of the text; thus complete text; incomplete text; selections; abridgements; with commentaries; etc.
It is hoped that despite limitations, notably the gaps in the collection referred to above, the present publication will be of considerable value for scholars and students of Buddhism as the first published catalogue of a major collection of Pali printed books in the UK
Serial magnetic resonance imaging of splenomegaly in the Trypanosoma brucei infected mouse
No full textSplenomegaly, an enlargement of the spleen, is a known clinical sign of the parasitic disease, human African trypanosomiasis. This study follows the development of splenomegaly in a group of mice over multiple infection points, using a non-invasive imaging modality, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). CD-1 mice infected with GVR35 T.b. brucei demonstrated a significant increase in spleen size from day 7 post-infection, with changes in the spleen tracked in individual animals over five time points. At the final time point, the mean spleen weight calculated using the spleen volume from the MR images was compared with the post-mortem gross spleen weight. No significant difference was detected between the two methods (1.62 ± 0.06g using MRI and 1.51 ± 0.04g gross weight, p = 0.554). Haematology and histological analysis were also performed, giving additional insight into splenomegaly for the GVR35 strain of infection. The study demonstrates that MRI is a useful tool when examining changes in organ volume throughout HAT infection and may be applicable in the investigation of a range of conditions where changes in organ volume occur and MRI has not been used previously. Author summary Although splenomegaly (the enlargement of the spleen) has been explored previously in mice infected with human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), a parasitic disease originating in Africa, it has never been examined in individual mice over time. This study is the first to do this using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). By scanning mice infected with trypanosomes, we were able to examine how the spleen size and shape changed over the course of the infection. We were also able to show the enlargement in spleen size before the clinical signs became apparent, demonstrating that MRI could be useful for examining changes in the organs in the body following the onset of disease
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