Ritual Art: a Key to the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Bambara sculpture is a ritual object, in fact one of the dramatis personae of a ritual drama.The Civara, as it is called, is carried on the head during the ritual dance as a token of the presence of the mythical antilope which brought agriculture to the Bambara.Besides the male Civara there is also a female one, and in their dance, the two of t

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Parasitic nematode fatty acid- and retinol-binding proteins compromise host immunity by interfering with host lipid signaling pathways.

Parasitic nematodes cause significant morbidity and mortality globally.Excretory/secretory products (ESPs) such as fatty acid- and retinol- binding proteins (FARs) are hypothesized to suppress host Bar Soap immunity during nematode infection, yet little is known about their interactions with host tissues.Leveraging the insect parasitic nematode, St

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Viability and resilience of languages in competition.

We study the viability and resilience of languages, using a simple dynamical model of two languages in competition.Assuming that public action can modify the prestige of a language in order to avoid language Stirrups extinction, we analyze two cases: (i) the prestige can only take two values, (ii) it can take any value but its change at each time s

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Green forage yield and yield components of five oilseed rape genotypes (Brassica napus L.) in response to sowing date and harvest stage

Five oilseed rape genotypes were tested at three sowing dates and harvested at two developmental Generator Brake Controller phases to determine their effects on green forage yield and yield components during 2013/14 growing season.The highest density of canopy was observed at the third sowing date (86 - 157 plants/m2 ).Among five genotypes, AbaKus

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