scholarly journals Parasitological and molecular study of Toxocara spp. in Lumbericus terrestricus earthworms

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-493
Author(s):  
E. Rasouli ◽  
M. Zibaei ◽  
S. Bahadory ◽  
H. Hosseini ◽  
F. Firoozeh
Keyword(s):  
Lumbricus Terrestris ◽  
Toxocara Canis ◽  
Molecular Study ◽  
Common Environment ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
Polymerase Chain ◽  
Paratenic Hosts ◽  
Toxocara Species

Soil-associated invertebrates which are coprophagic are capable of acting as paratenic hosts for Toxocara species larvae eggs. The aim of the present study was to assess the role of Lumbricus terrestris earthworms as potential intermediate host for Toxocara species. A total of 240 earthworms were collected from the public places in four areas of Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran. The subjects of the study were digested to detect Toxocara species using microscopy and molecular analyses. Toxocara larvae and larval eggs were recovered from 1.7% (4/240) of the sampled earthworms. The recovery rate in Shah'Abbasi and Talaghani regions in the studied areas was higher than that of the other regions. In the mentioned area, 8.3% (4/48) of earthworms were revealed to be positive for Toxocara species by microscopic observation and only one was confirmed to be positive for Toxocara canis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This is the first molecular report of Toxocara canis infective larvae in Lumbricus terrestris earthworms that could be demonstrated in common environment.

scholarly journals Human in the world of culture: the great patriotic war in the historical and cultural heritage of northeast of Russia (on the example of Yakutia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 03009
Author(s):  
Saassylana Sivtseva ◽  
Olga Parfenova
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
World War ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
Human Losses

The historical and cultural heritage, expressed in monuments, architectural structures, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, today is significant. The purpose of the article is to determine the role of society in perpetuating the memory of the Great Patriotic War. The authors conclude that the events of World War II find a lively response from the public. At the same time, new tendencies in commemorative practices are traced - tragic pages of history that until recently were “uncomfortable” (and in Soviet times banned for research), such as human losses, extremely high mortality of the civilian population from hunger, forcibly transferred to special settlements, - began to be reflected in the construction of monuments, memorable places. The location of these monuments is specific - they were erected at a certain distance from public places, at the territories of churches (victims of famine, victims of political repressions), which is associated with the predicted ambiguity of their perception.

Loitering with Intent: Biblical Texts in Public Places

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 566-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Print Media ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Natural Place ◽  
The Common ◽  
Biblical Texts

AbstractThis essay is about the effect of the Bible in the public arena. It explores the fate of biblical texts as they find themselves in the popular press. Secular newspapers are not the natural place to look for biblical citations but now and then they make appearances either to support or subvert issues ranging from asylumseekers to the use of corporal punishment for children. At a time when biblical allusions and imagery have all but evaporated from the Western consciousness, the intermittent showing up of sacred texts in the secular print media is a sign that the scriptures still have some hermeneutical hold. The essay looks at four areas—international conflict, sexual orientation, law and order and bringing-up children—where biblical texts are being summoned either to endorse or to repudiate. The essay raises hermeneutical issues such as how biblical texts are used in print media, the nature of the texts employed, the interface between popular and professional reading, the role of the common reader as a biblical commentator, and concludes with an examination of the standing and sway of the Bible as it moves outside its own natural habitat.

Role of cats in human toxocarosis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 400-408
Author(s):  
Pablo David Jimenez Castro ◽  
Sarah GH Sapp
Keyword(s):  
Definitive Host ◽  
Human Disease ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Toxocara Canis ◽  
Infection Risk ◽  
Domestic Cats ◽  
Toxocara Cati ◽  
Related Disease ◽  
Paratenic Hosts

Toxocara cati, the feline ascarid, is ubiquitous in domestic cats globally and is increasingly recognised as an important zoonotic species. In the definitive host, infections with the adult ascarid usually do not present any clinical signs; if clinical signs do appear, it is usually in kittens infected with T. cati, especially by the trans-mammary route. Diseases may include cachexia, a pot-bellied appearance, respiratory disorders, diarrhoea, vomiting, among other signs, and these may present as early as 3 weeks of age. However, infections with Toxocara spp. larvae in paratenic hosts (including humans and many other animals), can result in serious complications from the migration of larvae. Historically, there has been an assumption that Toxocara canis was the most likely cause of Toxocara spp.-related disease; while it is probably true that T. canis is responsible for the majority of infections, it is important that those caused by T. cati are accurately identified so that the contribution of this parasite to human disease can be established and then handled appropriately. Overall, the detection of infections in cats and the control of parasite stages in the environment are essential to minimise the infection risk to other animals or humans.

scholarly journals The Architecture of Place: Placemaking In The Urban Fabric of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pegah Rategh
Keyword(s):  
Built Environments ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Market ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
New Type

Nowadays, due to economic dynamics, modernity, technology and urban sprawl, humans are suffering from “placelessness”. A look at the urban fabric of metropolitan cities makes evident that public places are losing their distinctive idiosyncrasies. 21st-century built environments are diminishing the unique characters that make places noteworthy. The problem with this is that people have the desire to associate with distinctive places. Ignoring this tendency will create a type of environment where places do not matter any more. Public spaces that serve as platforms for life are not only essential to the identity of cities but also provide venues for social-cultural activities that will attract people. This thesis aims to investigate the role of architecture in increasing the quality of people’s daily experiences in the public domain, and to explore opportunities to frame a new type of public market place in Toronto by imbuing ‘The Architecture of Place’ with ‘a sense of place’.

scholarly journals Public space and alcohol advertising: Exploratory study of the role of local government

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Swensen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Alcohol Advertising ◽  
The Public ◽  
Street Furniture

Swensen, G. (2016). Public space and alcohol advertising: Exploratory study of the role of local government. The International Journal Of Alcohol And Drug Research, 5(3), 117-123. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v5i3.224The paper argues that local government bodies in Western Australia, which have a long-standing key role in overseeing public health standards and regulating business activities, potentially have a major, but under-recognized, capability to regulate the promotion and advertising of alcohol in public places overseen by them. It is contended that because local government bodies already possess extensive statutory powers to undertake this function, there is a compelling case for them to actively regulate alcohol advertising as they “own” most of the public space in Australian cities and towns.As the proposition would involve the prohibition of alcohol advertising, this could mean that local authorities may balk at assuming this responsibility due to a possible loss of revenue if they have already issued licenses to companies to construct and maintain key parts of the public infrastructure, like bus shelters, seating, and other street furniture, in return for being able to charge fees for advertising on these facilities.It is contended that local government authorities would ably perform a front-line role in regulating alcohol advertising in public places because of their reliance on community-based processes of consultation and decision-making for planning, in addition to understanding this role as an extension of a long standing role concerned with the advancement of public health and traffic safety.

scholarly journals Exploring the linguistic landscape of Cameroon: Reflections on language policy and ideology

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-324
Author(s):  
Martin Pütz
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
African State ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Public Places ◽  
African Languages ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
A Minor ◽  
British Colonies

This contribution focuses on the study of Linguistic Landscapes in the Central/Western African state of Cameroon, with particular reference to its capital, Yaoundé. Linguistic landscapes is a relatively recent area of research, and can be broadly defined as the visual representation of languages in public space. This paper will show that the field of linguistic landscapes can act as a reflection of linguistic hierarchies, ideologies and acts of resistance in multilingual and multicultural communities. At the same time, the sociolinguistic situation in the country will be investigated, which is paramount to understanding the linguistic and ideological conflicts between the anglophone minority and the francophone government. Cameroon’s linguistic landscape will be explored via the various spaces that English, French, Pidgin English, Camfranglais and, to a minor degree, indigenous African languages occupy in its sociolinguistic composition. The methodological design is quantitative in nature, involving collecting more than 600 linguistic tokens (digital photos) in various public places mainly in and around the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé. It will be demonstrated that the deployment of languages on signs and linguistic tokens, apart from serving informative and symbolic functions for the audiences or passers-by they target, also has social and political implications in an ethnically heterogeneous and linguistically hybrid society such as Cameroon. Whereas in some other former British colonies there are indications that the public space is being symbolically constructed in order to preserve some of Africa’s indigenous languages (e.g. in Botswana, Rwanda, Tanzania), in Cameroon the linguistic landscape almost exclusively focuses on the dominant status and role of one single language, i.e. French, and to a lesser extent English, whose speakers therefore feel marginalized and oppressed by the French government.

Role of small mammals in the epidemiology of toxocariasis

Parasitology ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Dubinský ◽  
K. Havasiová-Reiterová ◽  
B. Peťko ◽  
I. Hovorka ◽  
O. Tomašovičová
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammals ◽  
Toxocara Canis ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Toxocara Cati ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Paratenic Hosts ◽  
Rural Locality ◽  
Micromys Minutus

SUMMARYStudies were conducted on the role of small mammals in maintaining toxocariasis foci in urban, rural and montane biotopes. The lowest relative density of small mammals was recorded in the urban locality and the highest in the rural and montane localities. Anti-Toxocaraantibodies were most frequently detected in synanthropic and hemisynanthropic speciesMus musculus, Apodemus agrariusandMicromys minutus– 32·0, 30·4 and 25·0%, respectively. The highest seropositivity was found in small mammals from the urban and rural localities – 22·2 and 21·6%, respectively.Toxocara caniswas most prevalent in urban stray dogs (75·0%) and least prevalent in foxes from the montane locality (7·0%). The prevalence ofToxocara catiin cats at the urban, rural and montane localities was 66·2, 65·2 and 76·9%, respectively. In clinically healthy human populations, the highest seroprevalence was detected in the rural locality (14·0%). Children of the same area were 3 times more seropositive (12·9%) than those from the urban and montane localities (4·3 and 4·0%). Our studies suggest an important role for small mammals as paratenic hosts – reservoirs ofToxocaralarvae – in maintaining toxocariasis foci. In this respect toxocariasis may be classified as an anthropopurgic focal zoonosis.

scholarly journals Barista Art: Coffee Education Strategy to The Community

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-132
Author(s):  
Arifah Fathia Amani ◽  
Hanifah Ihsaniyati
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Coffee Consumption ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Coffee Shop ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Education Strategy ◽  
Coffee Shops

The phenomenon of coffee consumption is currently rife among young people as a lifestyle. Coffee had become one of the first global commodities. It has become common to find coffee shops, coffee bars, and kiosks. The phenomenon of coffee consumption is related to the role of a barista’s art. Baristas can be said as people who are experts in making coffee. However, while barista is widely known to the public only in the coffee shop even though many places for baristas can introduce coffee, such as in hotels, restaurants, offices or other public places. This paper aims to describe the role of barista art in educating the public about coffee. This paper is a compilation of several journal articles and books related to coffee, coffee culture, baristas, and the art of making coffee. Article references are obtained through Mendeley by selecting references that correspond to each topic of discussion. Discussion topics include Coffee Culture and Coffee Shop, Barista’s Action Art, and Coffee Education through Barista Art. The results showed that the existence of baristas had a very important role in educating coffee to the people of Indonesia, especially introducing archipelago coffee. Barista as the main agent in the dissemination of information about coffee so that it is very necessary to have a characteristic of art that must be possessed by the barista as one of the added values ​​in the dissemination of information about coffee.

Robots in a contagious world

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 673-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bogue
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Robotic Technology ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medical Supplies ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to show how robotic technology is being used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Following a short introduction, this discusses the role of robots in the following COVID-related applications: disinfection, checking human temperature, monitoring public places, delivering food and other items, food preparation and personal interactions by telepresence. It concludes with a brief discussion. Findings Robots are playing diverse and vital roles. They have helped to reduce the chances of spreading the infection by reducing inter-personal contact; freed-up medical professionals by conducting certain routine teaks; assisted and speeded-up the provision of food and medical supplies; monitored public places; informed the public of the need for social distancing; and allowed those in isolation to remain in contact with friends and family. Originality/value This provides a timely account of the use of robots in efforts to ameliorate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals The Architecture of Place: Placemaking In The Urban Fabric of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pegah Rategh
Keyword(s):  
Built Environments ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Market ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
New Type

Nowadays, due to economic dynamics, modernity, technology and urban sprawl, humans are suffering from “placelessness”. A look at the urban fabric of metropolitan cities makes evident that public places are losing their distinctive idiosyncrasies. 21st-century built environments are diminishing the unique characters that make places noteworthy. The problem with this is that people have the desire to associate with distinctive places. Ignoring this tendency will create a type of environment where places do not matter any more. Public spaces that serve as platforms for life are not only essential to the identity of cities but also provide venues for social-cultural activities that will attract people. This thesis aims to investigate the role of architecture in increasing the quality of people’s daily experiences in the public domain, and to explore opportunities to frame a new type of public market place in Toronto by imbuing ‘The Architecture of Place’ with ‘a sense of place’.

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