scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF THE COPPER AVAILABILITY IN THE ARABLE SOILS BY DIFFERENT EXTRACTANTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dijana Mihajlović ◽  
Svetlana Antić Mladenović ◽  
Dragoja Radanović
Keyword(s):  
Extraction Procedure ◽  
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Arable Soils ◽  
Soil Extraction ◽  
The North ◽  
Total Soil ◽  
Copper Availability ◽  
The Republic ◽  
North Western

This paper presents an assessment of the copper availability in soil by different single extractions: DTPA (0,005 mol/L), CaCl2 (0,1 mol/L) and NH4NO3 (1 mol/L, DIN procedure). The research was carried out on 48 samples of the arable soils taken in the north-western part of the Republic of Srpska. Total Cu contents was also determined in the soil samples after the acid digestion (HNO3+H2O2). Copper contents in the extracts was determined by the atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Total soil Cu ranged from 7,7−42,9 mg/kg which corresponded to Cu-unpolluted soils. Low level of Cu mobility and availability was found in the investigated soils. In the average DTPA extracted 10,87%, CaCl2 0,31% and NH4NO3 0,44% of the total soil Cu. High statistically significant correlation (r=0,84) between the Cu contents extracted with DTPA and NH4NO3 was found, which implies that maximum allowed level of this element in the soil for the DTPA extraction procedure might be established. That conclusion has to be verified in future research including soils with high total copper content. Keywords: heavy metals, soil, extraction, pollution.

scholarly journals Living Among the Dead – Settlement Structures in the North-Western Pontic Region in the 4th Millennium BC

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina A. Uhl
Keyword(s):  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Community Member ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
The North ◽  
Visible Marker ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Republic ◽  
North Western

Abstract The function of the plan-schematic settlements of the so called Cucuteni-Tripolye-Complex in the north-western pontic region remains enigmatic and yet, these structures haven´t been approached holistically. The article aims to address basic aspects as the construction plan and the chronology at one of these sites, the settlement Petreni in the Republic of Moldova. Beyond that, it shall be outlined, in how far the settlements served as mnemonic places. Deliberately burnt houses in these settlements represent a characteristic feature, which do not only resemble the end of a settling stage - they rather mark performative acts and may be associated with the death of a household or a community member. As the burnt house debris has not been removed or levelled, it reflects a visible marker for preceding generations among the living - such structures constitute distinctive mechanisms of commemoration and mirror communities which share a common set of experiences and knowledge.

Peripherality and Northern Ireland

1994 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 90-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Begg ◽  
David Mayes
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
The North ◽  
Working Age ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
North Western ◽  
The Eu

In writing recently about the economic problems that Northern Ireland faces (Begg and Mayes, 1994) we argued, uncontroversially, that an end to the ‘Troubles’ would significantly alter the region's prospects. Our analysis, nevertheless, focused on other factors which might be amenable to policy action. With an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland now on the cards, these other characteristics of the Northern Ireland economy must be expected to be of increased importance in determining the Province's competitiveness compared with other parts of the UK and, indeed, other regions of the European Union. In particular, Northern Ireland is a prime example of a ‘peripheral’ economy, located as it is at the North-Western corner of the EU and facing the further barrier of a sea crossing to markets other than the Republic of Ireland. It is also a region that shares a number of the characteristics of the older industrial regions of Britain, such as high unemployment, persistent emigration of working-age population and difficulties in achieving industrial restructuring (Harris et al., 1990; Harris 1991).

scholarly journals Kalmyk causative constructions: case marking, syntactic relations and the speaker’s perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (94) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Say
Keyword(s):  
State University ◽  
Causative Constructions ◽  
The North ◽  
Essential Properties ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Syntactic Relations ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
North Western ◽  
Direct Correspondence

This study is primarily concerned with the syntactic organisation of Kalmyk clauses headed by verbs that contain a morphological causative marker. The data reported here have been compiled during the summers between 2006 and 2008 in the Republic of Kalmykia. The fieldwork was organised by St. Petersburg State University and the Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. This fieldwork has been conducted in several villages in the North-Western part of the Republic of Kalmykia. This region is supposed to be the area where the Dörböt dialect of the Kalmyk language is spoken; however, there is no clear indication that the data discussed below are different from the facts found in standard Kalmyk in any relevant respect. The main objective of the study reported here is two-fold. First, there is a descriptive goal. Available descriptions of Kalmyk causatives are mostly concerned with morphological issues and case assignment in canonical causative constructions, whereas a deeper analysis of syntactic properties of causative constructions, especially of their non-canonical uses, is generally lacking. The present study is intended to partially fill this gap. Second, there is a more theoretical goal. It will be shown that there are essential properties of Kalmyk causatives that can be hardly captured by the usual derivational approaches to causatives. Rather, causative verbs in Kalmyk will be viewed as a device for establishing a more or less direct correspondence between an event’s participants and syntactic slots. Although the scope of this paper is limited to one individual language, its findings can have broader typological relevance. In particular, I believe that taking the speaker’s perspective into account can deepen our understanding of causative constructions in other languages as well.

New cryptogamic records. 6

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. V. Czernyadjeva ◽  
T. Ahti ◽  
O. N. Boldina ◽  
S. V. Chesnokov ◽  
E. A. Davydov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Leningrad Region ◽  
New Siberian Islands ◽  
South Ossetia ◽  
The North ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Pskov Region ◽  
The Republic ◽  
North Western ◽  
North Ossetia

First records of chrysophytes for the North-Western Russia and the Leningrad Region, fungi for the Pskov Region, lichens for Svalbard and the Altai Territory, bryophytes for the Far East, Arkhangelsk, Saratov, Voronezh and Sakhalin regions, the Karachayevo-Circassian Republic, Republic of North Ossetia – Alania, the Republic of Altai, the New Siberian Islands Archipelago, the Kuril Islands, the Republic of South Ossetia. The data on its localities, habitats and distribution are provided.

scholarly journals ASSOCIATION STUDY OF SIX CANDIDATE GENES WITH MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER IN THE NORTH-WESTERN POPULATION OF PAKISTAN

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazia Akbar ◽  
Naqash Alam ◽  
Sadiq Ali ◽  
Muhammad Ilyas ◽  
Habib Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Candidate Genes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Analysis ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Western Population ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
North Western

People around the world are currently affected by Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Despite its many aspects, symptoms, manifestations and impacts, efforts have been made to identify the root causes of the disorder. In particular, genetic studies have concentrated on identifying candidate genes for MDD and exploring associations between these genes and some specific group of individuals. The aim of this research was to find out the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms in 6 candidate genes linked to the neurobiology of major depressive disorder in the North-Western population of Pakistan. We performed a case-control analysis, with 400 MDD and 232 controls. A trained psychiatrist or clinical psychologists evaluated the patients. Six polymorphisms were genotyped and tested for allele and genotype association with MDD. There were no statistical variations between MDD patients and healthy controls for genotypic and allelic distribution of all the polymorphisms observed. Thus, our analysis does not support the major role of these polymorphisms in contributing to MDD susceptibility, although it does not preclude minor impact. The statistically significant correlation between six polymorphisms and major depressive disorder in the studied population was not observed. There are inconsistencies in investigations around the world. Future research, including GWAS and association analysis on larger scale should be addressed for further validation and replication of the present findings.

The Upper Palaeolithic Site of Ciuntu on the Middle Pruth, Moldova: a multidisciplinary study and reinterpretation

1997 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 285-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.A. Borziac ◽  
Philip Allsworth-Jones ◽  
Charles French ◽  
S.I. Medyanik ◽  
W.J. Rink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Left Bank ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
The North ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Last Glacial Maximum ◽  
North Western ◽  
The Last Glacial ◽  
Early Upper

The Ciuntu rockshelter is situated in the north-western part of the Republic of Moldova, on the left bank of the river Pruth. It has a single Upper Palaeolithic layer of occupation, which was originally regarded as Early Upper Palaeolithic and was assigned to the Brinzeni archaeological culture. More recent investigations, including radiocarbon dating, have led to a revision of this suggested age and classification. The site is now regarded as belonging to the Middle Gravettian and is dated to the beginning of the last glacial maximum.

scholarly journals Association study of six candidate genes with major depressive disorder in the North-Western population of Pakistan

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0248454
Author(s):  
Naqash Alam ◽  
Sadiq Ali ◽  
Nazia Akbar ◽  
Muhammad Ilyas ◽  
Habib Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Candidate Genes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Analysis ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Western Population ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
North Western

People around the world are currently affected by Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Despite its many aspects, symptoms, manifestations and impacts, efforts have been made to identify the root causes of the disorder. In particular, genetic studies have concentrated on identifying candidate genes for MDD and exploring associations between these genes and some specific group of individuals. The aim of this research was to find out the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms in 6 candidate genes linked to the neurobiology of major depressive disorder in the North-Western population of Pakistan. We performed a case-control analysis, with 400 MDD and 232 controls. A trained psychiatrist or clinical psychologists evaluated the patients. Six polymorphisms were genotyped and tested for allele and genotype association with MDD. There were no statistical variations between MDD patients and healthy controls for genotypic and allelic distribution of all the polymorphisms observed. Thus, our analysis does not support the major role of these polymorphisms in contributing to MDD susceptibility, although it does not preclude minor impact. The statistically significant correlation between six polymorphisms and major depressive disorder in the studied population was not observed. There are inconsistencies in investigations around the world. Future research, including GWAS and association analysis on larger scale should be addressed for further validation and replication of the present findings.

scholarly journals Dialectometry and Genetic Demography of Cystic Fibrosis. When Results Converge: The Case of Western Brittany

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 63-104
Author(s):  
Nadine Pellen ◽  
◽  
Tanguy Solliec ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Linguistic Distance ◽  
Distance Measurements ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Genetic Demography ◽  
North Western

This article was born out of two separate approaches carried out independently of one another. The first dealt with genetic demography and the second with variational linguistics, aiming to study the population and language of Brittany from a certain perspective. In their recent study of the genetic history of France, Saint Pierre et al. show that Brittany “is substantially closer to the population from north-west Europe than to the north of France, in spite of both being equally geographically close” (2020: 863). They propose that the Bretons’ earliest ancestors could be the descendants of early Neolithic pastoralist nomads from the Steppes (SP) who would have arrived in Brittany (i.e. the ‘NW cluster’) via north-western Europe. The second hypothesis would support the idea of a more recent migration from northern Europe with high SP proportion, i.e., Celtic and/or Anglo-Saxon. Our initial hypothesis is that the convergences in linguistics and genetics may be explained by a unique historical event, namely, the Brittonic settlement of the Armorican peninsula from the 4th through at least the 7th centuries and perhaps as late as the 8th century. The application of linguistic distance measurements in the study of vernacular Breton varieties by means of a dialectometric analysis made it possible to observe clear correspondences between levels of linguistic similarity and the distribution of the genetic pools linked to cystic fibrosis. The convergence of our collective findings is most clearly manifested in the radical opposition of the north-western and the south-eastern zones of Breton-speaking Brittany in terms of the linguistic and genetic data. In our view, the scientific approach inherent to genetic and dialectometric research and the concordance of these data appear to not only reinforce many of the hypotheses advanced previously but to open new avenues for future research.

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