Chapter III: A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Hope
Keyword(s):  
Distant Relative

I was not so unreasonable as to be prejudiced against the duke’s keeper because he disliked my complexion; and if I had been, his most civil and obliging conduct (as it seemed to me to be) next morning would have disarmed me. Hearing that...

Borrowing non-canonical inverse between Kabardian and Abaza

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-173
Author(s):  
Peter M. Arkadiev
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
First Person ◽  
Verbal Morphology ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Indirect Object ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Intransitive Verbs ◽  
Person Hierarchy ◽  
Distant Relative

Abaza, a polysynthetic ergative Northwest Caucasian language, shares with its neighbour and distant relative Kabardian a typologically peculiar use of the deictic directional prefixes monitoring the relative ranking of the subject and indirect object on the person hierarchy. In both languages, the cislocative (‘hither’) prefixes are used if the indirect object outranks the subject on the person hierarchy, and the translocative (‘thither’) prefixes are used in combinations of first person subjects with second person singular indirect objects. This pattern, reminiscent of the more familiar inverse marking and hence called ‘quasi-inverse’, is observed with ditransitive and bivalent intransitive verbs and is almost fully redundant, since all participants are unequivocally indexed on verbs by pronominal prefixes. I argue that this isogloss, shared by West Circassian (a close relative to Kabardian) but not with Abkhaz, the sister-language of Abaza, is a result of pattern replication under intense language contact, which has led to an increase of both paradigmatic and syntagmatic complexity of Abaza verbal morphology.

The March of Headlines

2018 ◽  
pp. 24-67
Author(s):  
Barbara Lounsberry
Keyword(s):  
Diary Entry ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Political Scene ◽  
Distant Relative

Virginia Woolf's “curious props”—including her diary and others’ diaries—ably support her across 1931. She shows, in fact, such sure life command that she mocks the outer political scene in September of 1931. Meanwhile, she continues to add newspaper headlines to her 1930–1931 diary, and her inner wars persist. This chapter shows how Woolf used her 1930–1931 diary as a practice field for The Waves. Other diaries also aid her. In December 1930, she makes double use of The Journal of a Somerset Rector, with its tale of a country suicide. First, she summarizes John Skinner's Journal in her diary to test her ability to write and then she revises the diary entry for her Second Common Reader essay “The Rev. John Skinner” (1932). She finds James Woodforde's Diary of a Country Parson further proof of life deathless in a diary and pairs him with John Skinner in the Second Common Reader. In May 1931, The Private Diaries of Princess Daisy of Pless—Vita Sackville-West's distant relative—offers Woolf rich matter for future works: for Flush, The Years, and Three Guineas.

scholarly journals On the use of dense SNP marker data for the identification of distant relative pairs

2016 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 14-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sun ◽  
M.A. Jobling ◽  
D. Taliun ◽  
P.P. Pramstaller ◽  
T. Egeland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Snp Marker ◽  
Marker Data ◽  
Distant Relative

Cloning and partial characterization of the xanthine dehydrogenase gene of Calliphora vicina, a distant relative of Drosophila melanogaster

Gene ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 59 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 201-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Rocher-Chambonnet ◽  
P. Berreur ◽  
M. Houde ◽  
M.C. Tiveron ◽  
J.A. Lepesant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Xanthine Dehydrogenase ◽  
Partial Characterization ◽  
Calliphora Vicina ◽  
Dehydrogenase Gene ◽  
Distant Relative

Discovery of herpesviruses in bats

2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (10) ◽  
pp. 2651-2655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gudrun Wibbelt ◽  
Andreas Kurth ◽  
Nezlisah Yasmum ◽  
Michael Bannert ◽  
Sabine Nagel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Human Cytomegalovirus ◽  
Glycoprotein B ◽  
Pcr Assay ◽  
Similar Distance ◽  
Herpesvirus 1 ◽  
Distant Relative

Seven novel gammaherpesviruses (GHV) and one novel betaherpesvirus were discovered in seven different European bat species (order Chiroptera, family Vespertilionidae) with a pan-herpesvirus PCR assay, targeting the DNA polymerase (DPOL) gene. The sequences of six bat GHV were similarly related to members of the gammaherpesvirus genera Percavirus and Rhadinovirus. The seventh GHV was related to the porcine lymphotropic herpesvirus 1 (genus Macavirus). The betaherpesvirus appeared to be a distant relative of human cytomegalovirus. For three bat GHV a 3.6 kbp locus was amplified and sequenced, spanning part of the glycoprotein B gene and the majority of the DPOL gene. In phylogenetic analysis, the three bat GHV formed a separate clade with similar distance to the Percavirus and Rhadinovirus clades. These novel viruses are the first herpesviruses to be described in bats.

Enhancing pork flavor and fat quality with swine raised in sylvan systems: Potential niche-market application for the Ossabaw hog

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Talbott ◽  
M. Todd See ◽  
Peter Kaminsky ◽  
Don Bixby ◽  
Michael Sturek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Monounsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Forest Plot ◽  
Niche Markets ◽  
Niche Market ◽  
Fat Deposits ◽  
Trained Panel ◽  
Distant Relative

Our global food supply becomes more vulnerable as we continue to lose diverse genetic resources. The Ossabaw hog is a feral breed that is unique to North America, a distant relative to the renowned Iberian hog and is considered an endangered swine breed. The objective of our farmer participatory project was to examine the meat and fat characteristics of Ossabaw hogs raised in alternative management systems for niche-market application. At one farm, eight Ossabaw pigs were randomly assigned to a grass pasture and fed a free choice corn–soy (CS) ration or placed in a mixed hardwood forest plot and provided free choice peanuts in the shells (P), alfalfa pellets (A) and mast from the mixed hardwoods (diet collectively referred to as PAM). The two diets had no effect on Ossabaw production data or pork quality characteristics; however, fat profiles were altered. Ossabaws weighed approximately 70 kg when harvested at 400 days and produced chops with small loin eyes (21–23 cm2) and minimal evidence of intramuscular fat deposits (1%). The unsaturated fatty acid (USFA) to saturated fatty acid (SFA) ratio improved from 1.6 to 2.6 (P<0.01) as a result of feeding the PAM diet. Forest-finished Ossabaw pork was considered more flavorful by food critics and renowned chefs than that of conventionally fed animals. Mast from hardwoods offers the possibility of enhancing pork flavor for niche markets and using a renewable forest resource as a food source. For farm two, eight Ossabaw gilts and eight crossbred progeny (from European breeds) were randomly assigned to one of the two dirt-lots and fed free choice a CS ration or PA diet (same ration as mentioned above with no mast). Ossabaw hogs grew nearly one-third as fast as the crosses and weighed approximately 80% of the crosses' harvest weight at twice their age. Loin eye areas of the crosses were nearly twice as large as the Ossabaws while the subcutaneous back fat deposition was nearly half. Compared to the CS diet, the PA ration decreased SFA by 23% while polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) increased by 60%. The USFA to SFA ratios improved from 1.5 to 2.2 (P<0.01) when PA diets were fed. Differences (P<0.05) in USFA profiles were observed for breed effects; Ossabaws had 8% higher levels of monounsaturated fatty acids and 18% lower PUFA levels than the crosses. When adjusted for breed effects, no differences in sensory characteristics for the CS versus PA diets were detected by a trained panel. Ossabaws were more flavorful than the crosses (2.3 versus 1.6); (P<0.05).

scholarly journals Local Names of Wild Grapevine in Georgia and Its Ethnobotanical Use

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Shengeli Kikilashvili ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Vitis Vinifera ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Local People ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Planting Material ◽  
Wild Grape ◽  
Wild Grapevine ◽  
Distant Relative ◽  
Grape Cultivars ◽  
Grape Breeding

Wild grapevine Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris (C.C.Gmel.) Hegi is a typical plant of Georgian flora, spread in our country. Consequently, a numerous number of local synonym names of this plant are available in different historical-ethnographic provinces of Georgia. Among these names ‘Krikina’, ‘Babilo’, ‘Mortskhula’, ‘Brdzghuamli’ and ‘Dzghvamli’ are more spread, having different spelling variations. The great contrubution of wild grape is that it, as an ancestor of cultivated grapevine, made the basis of grape breeding in Georgia and is a distant relative of our varieties. Besides, as it was demonstrated by the ethnobotanical research, due to long period present in the forests of Georgia the local people used this plant as a food (grape, pickles), a beverage (young fermented wine ‘Machari’, wine, grappa), a construction material (buildings, door for a church, breedge), a tool for washing Qvevri, a pollinator for grape cultivars, a honey plant, a rootstock, a planting material for vineyards.

From Barber-Surgeon’s Son to Professor

Born to Write ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 302-314
Author(s):  
Neil Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Distant Relative

Although the family’s movements within social hierarchy between 1526 and 1626 were multiple and complex, one turning point was particularly decisive, both for Matthieu and his future son François. It occurred in 1529, when Matthieu, aged perhaps about 6, left his birthplace of Saint-Denis and the barber-surgeon milieu in which he had always lived, going to study in Paris at the Collège du Cardinal Lemoine at the instigation of his distant relative François Vatable, who may earlier have undergone a similar social transformation himself. Matthieu became a Calvinist scholar, Professor of Philosophy, and chronologer. His representations, private or public, of his and his family’s social status attribute differing degrees of importance to it. The sharpness of the rupture with his early life seems to have enhanced his sense that his family, or part of it, stood out in a divine hierarchy, since it had been chosen by God for special scholarly purposes.

‘It'S All about the APPS’: Parental Mediation of Pre-Schoolers' Digital Lives

2014 ◽  
Vol 153 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donell Holloway ◽  
Lelia Green ◽  
Carlie Love
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Parental Mediation ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Young Mother ◽  
Digital Interventions ◽  
First Child ◽  
Collaborative Play ◽  
Distant Relative ◽  
Game Changer

A young mother with a two-year-old and a four-year-old is asked about her experience of parenting. ‘I can't believe how much is different, ‘she says, ‘between the first child and the second. It's all about the apps.’ Elsewhere in the room, the two pre-schoolers are absorbed in collaborative play with an iPad. Across the continent, a distant relative prepares for a pre-arranged Skype session with her young niece and nephew. She wonders whether the youngest, who has never video-conferenced before, will recognise and talk to her. These children are growing up with a game changer. What had been hailed as ‘the Semantic Web’ is turning out to be something creatively different. This article uses a series of vignettes to examine the power of the app, from Playschool Playtime to Skype, to highlight, analyse and discuss young children's (aged from birth to five) digital interventions facilitated by a download and touchscreen technologies.

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