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Thermal and composition driven phase transition in the co-operative Jahn-Teller distorted Zn1-xCuxCr2O4 spinel
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S. Tamilselvan’s Short Story 'Subbuttai' from a Sociological Point of View
No full textAmong Tamil writers in the Karisal region, S. Tamilselvan's story, Subhuthai, is said to point to the plight of child labor. The Subhuthai story points to the psychological tendency of a child to express her emotional state in a realistic way while carrying the burden of the family at the age of going to school, and thinking of her mother and the baby in her arms, without talking about education at all. No matter how many short stories have been written about child labor in the history of Tamil short stories, this story highlights the plight of child labor, which is considered a disgrace to society. His story has done an unparalleled job of convincing the upper class through such stories to stop the children working at their homes and send them to school. Another important domain in the works of Tamilselvan are the stories of Subbuthai, Voices, Lunger Boy, Word, and Mynakkal, which tell us about the mental world of children, the stories of the nostalgic crises of children from economically disadvantaged families. Through Subhuthai, the expressions of Karisal children’s lifestyle is said to be voiced
CR1 Knops blood group alleles are not associated with severe malaria in the Gambia
No full textThe Knops blood group antigen erythrocyte polymorphisms have been associated with reduced falciparum malaria-based in vitro rosette formation (putative malaria virulence factor). Having previously identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human complement receptor 1 (CR1/CD35) gene underlying the Knops antithetical antigens Sl1/Sl2 and McC(a)/McC(b), we have now performed genotype comparisons to test associations between these two molecular variants and severe malaria in West African children living in the Gambia. While SNPs associated with Sl:2 and McC(b+) were equally distributed among malaria-infected children with severe malaria and control children not infected with malaria parasites, high allele frequencies for Sl 2 (0.800, 1,365/1,706) and McC(b) (0.385, 658/1706) were observed. Further, when compared to the Sl 1/McC(a) allele observed in all populations, the African Sl 2/McC(b) allele appears to have evolved as a result of positive selection (modified Nei-Gojobori test Ka-Ks/s.e.=1.77, P-valu
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