Natural Way Of Life Research Articles

Prospects for organic horse breeding in Yakutia

The article discusses the prospects for the development of organic horse breeding in Yakutia. The potential of Yakutia in the development of organic animal husbandry is justified by the presence of a huge territory with a favorable environmental situation, the presence of vast areas remote from industrial centers that meet the concept of eco-products. It is noted that Yakut traditional animal husbandry, especially herd horse breeding, is suitable for organic animal husbandry, due to the fact that the requirements are ideally met. Organic animal husbandry requires keeping animals in the most environmentally friendly conditions, where there is no environmental pollution. in the natural way of life to which animals are adapted, where the traditional management system adheres, where animals are adapted to local conditions, emphasis should be placed on the use of organic feeds, which should be natural, nutritious and provide animals with normal physiology and metabolism, should not contain harmful substances, purebred animals without crossbreeds are welcome, that is, local breeds with high resistance to adverse maintenance factors. It is noted that the Yakut horse breeding, with a special technology of maintenance and feeding, provides environmentally friendly dietary, delicatessen products (foal, internal fat, blood, etc.), which has the prospect of being an export product.

Postcolonial Trauma in the Lives of Indian Tribes

India is a country that is home to 1.4 billion people. These people are part of wide and intricate groups, communities, castes and tribes. While close to 91.4% of the Indian population has progressed into the colonial standard of civilization, according to the Census Report 2011, about 8.6% of people are still living in their original and natural way of life. These people are the tribes of India whose way of life has been romanticized as the ‘Indian Culture’. A section of tribal people continues to live in mountains, and forests and construct only mud houses or huts. They have little access to basic amenities like healthcare, education, electricity and water. While few tribes have moved out of their original ways of life by converting to other religions, certain tribes are still governed by their respective leaders, following the religions and customs that were taught to them centuries ago. It is at times difficult for the State Governments to reach the tribes since most of them resist any such advancements. European Colonization of India led to the discovery of several tribes that were until that point in time living in harmony with nature and forests. This paper will analyze through literature the pre-colonial and post-colonial lives of certain Indian tribes living in the mountains of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Remarks on the Concept of a Sustainable City in Light of Konrad Lorenz’s Concept of Man

For several decades now, intensive research has been carried out on the concept of a city that would be as environmentally friendly as possible, while simultaneously providing a high quality of life for its residents. As a result of this research, the concept of a sustainable city that addresses these challenges has been developed. The significance of this issue is evidenced by the fact that Sustainable Development Goal 11 is explicitly concerned with this topic. This paper aims to analyze the concept of a sustainable city from the perspective of the so-called ‘layered’ concept of man authored by Konrad Lorenz. It is based on the observation that the pace of biological evolution and that of the cultural evolution man undergoes differ significantly. While humans have adapted very quickly to urban living in their cultural layer, adaptation to city life in their biological layer has been very slow. The natural way of life pursued by the Homo sapiens was a hunter–gatherer lifestyle, which biological evolution had adapted the species to over hundreds of thousands of years. The changes associated with the Neolithic Revolution and the formation of the first cities took place about 11,000 years ago. Thus, not enough time has elapsed for humans to adapt biologically to their radically changed living conditions. The purpose of this paper is to look from a new perspective at the challenges faced by city dwellers, and in doing so, to identify the sources of these challenges and to arrange them in a hierarchy. An additional goal is to expand the argument for promoting certain elements of a sustainable city. Indeed, much seems to suggest that Lorenz’s concept offers a novel approach to looking at such urban issues as the challenges of overpopulation, man’s restricted access to nature, and the ever-increasing pace of life.

Foragers: a Natural Way of Life

Postindustrial society is similar to preindustrial in the sense that the economy of the former is based on the appropriation of products from robotic production, and the latter is based on the appropriation of products produced by nature. The vast majority of people throughout almost the entire history of mankind lived off hunting and gathering, so the appropriating economy can be considered a natural form of life support. Hunters and gatherers (foragers) fully met their needs with minimal labor costs through the use of fishing technologies that were so effective that many populations and species of animals were exterminated. Compared to farmers, foragers ate better and were in better health. The transition to a productive economy was not historically inevitable. The Neolithic Revolution was actually evolution - drawn out, intermittent, and incomplete. The foraging groups that have survived to this day in remote areas are characterized by a positive psychological well-being and consider their way of life to be normal and correct. Given the current trend towards a green economy, the historical experience of hunters and gatherers deserves to be studied and rethought.

Thematological Approach in Kurinchip Paattu

One of the most important theories of literary criticism is the theory of themotology. On this theory, comparative scholars such as S.S. Prawer, Harry Levin, and Ulrich Weisstein have proposed the underlying theories that are common to the whole of world literature. On the basis of these principles, an examination of the underlying of Kapilar's Kurinjippaattu in the ten verses shows that the majority agrees with the theory of the underlying of the aforementioned comparative scholars. The natural way of life of the people of Kurinji, the problems faced by the people of Kurinji in the food production system, the role of women in the conservation of millets in the Kurinji land, and the contribution of the friend of the friend of the righteous stand are the underlying themes of Kurinjipattu. Moreover, the good qualities of the man, the festivals of the people of the Kurinji land, the customs, and the man's vow to marry the woman form the thematics of the underlying Kurinjippaattu. In every instance mentioned by Kapilar in the Kurinjippaattu, it can be seen that the underlying theme is embedded. It can be seen that the ideas contain many cultural elements, like images. Similarly, if the other ten verses are examined, we will be able to identify many more underlying ideas.

Diabetes as a Sign of Our Times – a Review

One of the Most increasing diseases of our time is diabetes mellitus. It has a main cause in our civilization lifestyle. This has a variety of abnormalities and risks, especially with regard to the intake of industrially processed substances and sugars. The problems are listed. A return to a more natural way of life is inevitable.

The familiar strange of sociological fiction

Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude makes the magical and strange feel familiar, and short stories from Fiction @ The Sociological Review inversely make the familiar feel strange. I consider this ability to make the familiar strange as a key part of having a sociological sense of the world: as an ability to disturb what seems fixed and settled in society, and unmake any given set of social relations as the only and natural way of life. I conceptualise the crafting of this sense in fiction as a process of distillation. When writing sociological fiction, we distil our disciplinary attunement – strip down, concentrate and refine the many concepts and findings of our work – to craft scenes which unsettle ‘common sense’.

Europe as an extended Greece: Travelogues by Karl Kerényi and Gábor Devecseri

Abstract This study is dealing with the travel notes and diaries in Hungarian and German from the 1950s and 1960s. The two examined authors are Karl (Károly) Kerényi (1897–1973) and Gábor Devecseri (1917–1971). Kerényi’s travel notes and diaries reveal the thoughts of a very wide-ranging scholar. Devecseri’s volume Crickets of Epidaurus, Sing (Epidauroszi tücskök, szóljatok) is actually a collection, condensed into the history of four trips: three to Greece and one to Italy. The present study examines the characteristics of these two perspectives, namely, the Western vs. the Eastern, the classic scholar’s vs. the scholarly poet’s using the contexts of travelogues and cultural memory as a point of departure. While for Kerényi, travel is a natural way of life, Devecseri travels and uses his idea based on his reading experiences as starting points. In the texts of both authors, we are confronted with both the archival and the current way of life of cultural memory.

Human Rights of Women under Cameroonian Customary Law: The Need for Change

Human Rights are those rights which are inherent in our nature and without which we cannot live as human beings. The sad fact remains that despite the guarantee of human rights by the Constitution of Cameroon and international treaties, the female half of humanity remains subject to distinctive and continuous forms of abuses, injustice and violence as well as to an enormous range of legal disabilities and discrimination. Our findings revealed that most of the abuses against the women in Cameroon are perpetuated under customary law by the men who see themselves more superior than the women. These abuses take the form of domestic violence and torture, the refusal of the right of inheritance, control and ownership of landed property, ignoring of the woman’s right of consent before marriage, infant betrothal, shaving of hair and sleeping on the floor by a widow after the death of the husband, female genital mutilation and above all, asking a widow to drink the water that was used to wash her husband’s corpse in a bid to prove her innocence that she did not killed her husband. We consider all of these dehumanizing moreover as the woman ceases legally to be a person upon her marriage. Her personality is thus submerged into that of her husband and she becomes the husband’s property. The life of women is thus unfulfilled in many ways and they have accepted this as the natural way of life. There is thus a need for change. This is possible through a careful study and implementation by Cameroon Government of the recommendations that have suggested in the write-up.

Flexibility in the Implementation of Islamic Criminal Law in Modern Islamic Society in the Light of Qur’ān and Sunnah

Islam holds the balance of justice in the right manner and insists on examining all the conditions and circumstances associated with the offence because Islam is the most natural way of life on account of its suitability, sustainability and flexibility towards human nature. No other legal system in the world has been created for the public interest, the way the Islamic law has been created. This paper focuses upon the flexibility in the implementation of Islamic criminal law (Hudood) in modern society. Islam has made laws that aim to eliminate the causes of crime and not to antagonize the criminal. Sharia imposes preventive punishments which may appear cruel or rough if gazed at without proper consideration. But if contemplated closely, Islam does not execute such punishments unless it discovers that the crime was not justifiable or that the criminal was not acting under any obligation or certain circumstances. The Holy Prophet (SAW) was very careful in the establishment of Hudood because not all crimes were of the same nature and therefore, the same punishments could not be enforced for them. Hence, while applying punishments to crimes; the Holy Prophet (SAW) took into consideration the nationality, personal situations, financial stature and status of the criminal. Thus the Hudood of Allah would be established and the criminal would still have a path to correct him/her and seek forgiveness.

Underlying beliefs linked to public opinion about gene drive and pest-specific toxin for pest control

Abstract ContextDeveloping a new tool for wide-scale rat eradication is necessary for significant biodiversity gains. Underlying beliefs linked to public opinion can help guide policy makers to understand public concern and inform an effective discourse. AimsWe investigated underlying beliefs linked to levels of support for a potentially disruptive tool, gene drive, compared with a traditional stepwise tool, aerial distribution of a new pest-specific toxin. MethodsUsing the theory of planned behaviour, we surveyed (n=1200) a representative sample of New Zealanders to assess the level of support for the tool related to attitude, normative and control beliefs. Key resultsAttitude (e.g. gene drive is good/bad and gene drive is risky/safe) and two norms (e.g. people like me and people in my household) were key contributors to level of support for gene drive. Behavioural beliefs (if scientific evidence can prove it works, concern there are unknown consequences, a humane way to rid New Zealand of rats, and gene drive goes against natural way of life) were also significant. For aerial distribution of a new pest-specific toxin, the same attitudes and normative beliefs identified for gene drive also contributed significantly to the model. Four behavioural beliefs, namely, aerial delivery could affect areas outside the target zones, if there is scientific evidence, and it is impossible to make a pest-specific toxin that would not harm our native wildlife were also significant. The impact either tool may have on biodiversity was not significant in either model. ConclusionsDecision making about both gene drive (a disruptive technology) and aerial distribution of a pest-specific toxin (a stepwise technology) is primarily influenced by attitudes, with a few beliefs also influencing decision making. Novelty of the tool does not affect the underlying beliefs that are influencing levels of support. ImplicationsPublic engagement that acknowledges and responds to these underlying beliefs, rather than a traditional campaign based on biodiversity and environmental gains, may be more effective at creating a constructive dialogue about if and how these tools should be used, and to avoid replicating the polarised debate about 1080.

Priming Matrix – Collective Nonconscious Programming

Contemporary sociology, and especially social psychology, explores the mechanisms of priming, automaticity, and their effects on social behavior. Priming matrix is a new concept, a phrase semantically coined by the author in order to explain such complex socio-psychological phenomena in the area of social cognition. This study makes an analyses and description of the dynamics and mechanisms of the programming from a socio-psychological aspect, Transactional analysis, and the perspective of Christian psychotherapy. Methodologically, new concepts are applied: priming matrix and types of representations (Ilievska) with its operational elements (stimulus, prime, representation, subliminal level), and the concepts: awareness and collective nonconscious schemes (Ilievski, 2015), which are described as an opposite of the natural way of life, the personal autonomy and the real freedom. Each person has a basic need for relation, psychological organization, and structure. In its foundation lies the creation of basic mental constructs, socio-cognitive schemes, which have a neurobiological ground. In addition, human behavior can be programmed, nonconsciously, on multiple levels: individual, collective, global, through the complex psychological processes, modeling and conditioning, to the more subtle forms of priming, creating passive automatic social behavior.

SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR ESTIMATION HEAVY METALS ACCUMULATION IN WHEAT PLANTS AND GRAIN

Plants would the start with step of a metal's pathway starting with the dirt on heterotrophic creatures for example, such that animals and humans, thus the substance from claiming metallic follow components for eatable parts of a plant representable accessible load of these metals that might enter those natural way of life through plants. Around metal elements, Cu and Zn would micro nutrients as they are essential in trace concentrations for physiological processes in plants. Furthermore consequently would a critical part from the soil–plant–food continuum. Therefore this study aimed to analyzing the performance of multivariate hyperspectral vegetation indices of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in estimating the accumulation of these elements in plant dry mutter and the final product of Egyptian wheat crop irrigated with high concentrations of Zn and Cu. We applied five concentrations for each element (0.05, 20, 40, 100, and 150 ppm of Zn) and (0.02, 8, 10, 12, and 15 ppm of Cu) to a controlled greenhouse experiment to examine the effect of these concentrations on plant spectral characteristics and study the possibility of using spectroradiometry measurements for identifying the grain content of these metals. The results demonstrated that The hyperspectral vegetation indices had a potential for monitoring Zn concentration in the plant dry matter. NPCI and PSSR had a highest correlation with Cu phytoaccumulation into the grains with highest significant level (P-Value < 0.01) and (r) values (-0.39, -0.42). Conclusively, Results of present study demonstrate that hyperspectral reflectance data, as well as studied VIs appears to have potentials for monitoring the phytoaccumulation of Zn into above-ground parts of wheat. The hyperspectral vegetation indices had insignificant correlation with Zn accumulation in to the grains, but it had a significant negative relationship with Cu concentration in grains with low correlation coefficient values.

History of Journalism and Literature as University Disciplines

Reforms in education, which have led to humanitarian catastrophe, are encouraging universities to seek new opportunities in teaching and learning the history of literature and journalism so that it could serve as a bridge for overcoming the cultural gap. The article describes 4 points of the discipline convergence. The matter of no less importance is the involvement of students into research work. One of its directions (though, of course, not the single one) is the studies of national journalism in its links with literature. It is quite correct and methodologically valid to consider journalism as a kind of literary activity as it contains work with the word and text creating. Many writers who have become undisputed classics now came to literature via journalism. For others it was a kind of literary work and a natural way of life for a man of letters. And still others came into complex, often forced, or even conflicting relations with it. Whatever it was, each case is specific and requires specific study. This is the first area of research. The second one is the history of critical assessments, creation of the writer’s literary reputation in its contemporaneity and then in posthumous criticism. University faculties of journalism may well be, and actually are becoming or have already become, such scientific centers. They have accumulated a wealth of material, such as theses, research papers, monographs, etc. And, of course, (thirdly), one of the areas of a close contact between literature and journalism is publicism. Such research has been efficiently conducted at universities for a long time. In literary criticism in recent years, the term of «artistic and journalistic unity» has been discussed which persuades us in commonality of many philological, historical and journalistic research. The fourth direction is journalistic performances as pretexts or sources of artistic works. The plot of “Crime and Punishment”, some novels by N. Leskov, “Sentimental novels” by M. Zoshchenko is the series which goes on. Such topics of final qualifying works, as well as master’s and doctoral theses as “M. Bulgakov and journalism”, “N. Gumilyov and journalism” are quite legitimate. Such studies are already underway. In modern conditions the role of humanities, which would help overcome the cultural gap, or at least could resist it, is becoming particularly important.

Performance evaluation of various natural agro fibres in carpet making and their costing

The growing concerns for environment and health hazards associated with the use of synthetic dyes, particularly in western countries gave fillip for cultivation and use of naturally coloured cotton, other minor fibres like banana, sisal, hemp etc. The popular belief is that the industrial practices and particularly the chemical industry have altered the natural balance in the world. There is a perception that chemistry is fiddling with the nature. This in turn, leads to returning to traditional or so called more natural way of life. As a part of this trend, there is a lobby for using natural colouring matters today. The reasons for increasing popularity of naturally colorued cotton and other agro fibres include that, these fibres are ecological and economical. In processing of white cotton the chemicals and dyes used and their effluents cause pollution directly or indirectly, the chlorinated products and bleaching agents employed for bleaching cause skin irritation. Dyes containing traces of heavy elements such as arsenic, lead, cadmium, cobalt, zinc and chromium are found skin irritants. The cost of dyeing cotton and other agro fibres economically and environmentally can be very high especially in the counties with strict pollution standards. The cost of naturally coloured cotton is 31 per cent less than the conventionally grown and dyed yarn. Further, the demand for organically produced agricultural products is on the rise. Dyeing uses up to 85 per cent of all the energy used to produce textiles and produces more pollution than any other phase of textile manufacturing. Natural coloured cotton has high quality light and wash fastness, saves resources and prevents pollution. When most textile materials are subjected to continuous rubbing forces, the result is broken threads or holes that we usually associate with wear and abrasion. However, when carpets undergo similar forces, the most obvious results are loss of pile height, gradual flattening of yarns, fuzzing and matting of the pile. Aiming at developing environmentally friendly products, naturally coloured cotton and many other agro fibres were used for making carpets and subjected to some important functional parameters assessed for durability of the newly designed carpets. The results of the study showed that, among the five different types of carpets, compression recovery of naturally coloured cotton carpets was higher followed by cotton carpets. Compression recovery of all the carpets was far less and the carpets did not recover more than 50 per cent. Among the ten different carpets sisal carpets were the costliest followed by banana carpets. The cost of these carpets was high due to cost of raw material i.e. yarn and is not easily available. Naturally coloured carpets were the cheapest or economical among all types of carpets. The cost of production totally depended on the complexity of the design and number of colours used in the design.

Causes for the Rude Behavior of Elephants in and around the Udawalawe National Park

Sri Lankan elephants (Elphahas maximus maximus) genetically highly migrating sub-species need more and free natural ways to move to find their seasonal ecological niche as natural way of life. As study area, Udawalawe National Park (UNP) is a major elephant range and elephants are considered as key stone species of the park. The objective of this study was to find the causes for the rude behavior of elephants at the UNP. The fieldwork was conducted in east, west and south of the park through observation and interviews with officers and local people in April and December 2014. Data analysis was carried out based on obtained qualitative and quantitative data. The villagers trespass to the park and corridors for number of illegal activities and also to build fences and huts. Besides this, visitors throw stones, hoot vehicle hones and flash their cameras. Due to the above such human activities and with the attraction of fruits and vegetables around the park, at night around 7.00 pm to 1.00 am they feed and trample outside the park especially in March and April. People light crackers, light fires, shout, make noises with tins and coconut shells and sometimes shoot the elephants to chase. With such repeated incidents, the elephants become rude. According to the field study, out of nearly 325 to 400 elephants, three or four elephants throw long logs onto the electric wires and by connecting two wires together they defuse them. Some elephants also push and fell the posts on which the barbed wires are fixed. Another three elephants push the wire with their backs intermittently and then cross the fence. When the elephants find their habitats and corridors blocked by settlements, walls and cultivation, stubborn to change their route, they demolish the walls, eat the crops and trample them as they move on. If anybody happens to encounter the elephants in such a situation, they pitch violently to the ground and trample to death. Elephants have adopted this behavior as their self-defense mechanism because of unethical human practices in and around the park and elephant corridors. Keywords: Rude behaviour, Elephant, Udawala National Park

Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex and Biofilms

The Porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC) is a term used to describe polymicrobial respiratory infections in pigs. Respiratory diseases in pigs are common in modern pork production worldwide and are the responsible for major economic losses in the swine industry. Pathogens involved in respiratory disease in pigs vary significantly among farms, production sites, regions and countries, making generalizations about the PRDC treatment and difficult to control it. The interactions that occur on the cellular and molecular levels during concurrent infection of pigs with two or more respiratory pathogens are multi-faceted and convoluted. There are a variety of bacterial and viral pathogens commonly associated with the PRDC. The main associated bacteria include: Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, Streptococcus suis, Pasteurella multocida, Bordetella bronchiseptica, Haemophilus pasaruis, and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae. Currently, it is known among microbiologists that biofilm formation is an universal attribute of microorganisms and the main way of life in nature that are causing problems such as developing diseases in animals and humans. Here, is reviewed the current knowledge of the major bacteria involved in this disease, their ability to form biofilms, as well as their importance on the infection process.

Ethnomedicinal recipes for Urinary and Kidney ailments from Tribals of Sriharikota Island, Andhra Pradesh

Sriharikota Island in Andhra Pradesh is an elliptical land mass sandwiched between Bay of Bengal in the East and Pulicat lake in the West. Sullurpet is the nearest railway station, which is 18 Km from Sriharikota Island and it is on Chennai –Kolkata trunk line and 90 Km away from North of Chennai. An aboriginal tribe called Yanadi dwells in Sriharikota. It is similar to Chenchu community elsewhere in Andhra Pradesh. Inspite of the community being drifted from their natural way of life due to agro-rural development activities, a few aged tribals are still able to furnish traditional ethnomedicinal data.

The Development of Green Architectural Heritage Cave Civilization

Cave dwelling in Loess Plateau embodies people's wisdom and experience of construction, not only warm in winter and cool in summer, and energy conservation, section, shockproof, dustproof, windproof, riot, sound insulation, quiet, obtain raw material locally, easy construction, low cost, is conducive to the ecological balance and protect the original natural scenery. Saving energy, green building resources saving, adapt to the special regional climate, coordination, and regional environment to meet the living needs of the 5 major characteristics, enjoy one of the 4 caves. Kiln life is human health, environmental protection way of life, at the same time, the natural way of life but also to the modern architecture to enlightenment. First analysis of the green building features as the original ecological national characteristics of the building with one of the cave dwelling embodies, has the positive significance of ecological advantages, it has on the modern green building development however, its limitations are not to be ignored; then discusses the cave improvement and Enlightenments to modern city green building design; finally the prospect of sustainable development direction and Prospect of the green building in the cave..

A Pattern Of Rural Tourism In The Songkhla Lake Basin, Thailand

This article aims to determine a pattern of rural tourism that harmonizes with the Songkhla Lake Basin (SLB) resources in southern Thailand. Data were collected through a field survey, focus group discussions involving tourism stakeholders, a snowball sampling technique with SLB experts, and questionnaires with 400 tourists. The study found that the SLB tourism resources are located in a mountain range, in the foothills, in the lowlands, on the coast, and on a lake. The tourism field consists of a natural way of life; belief in Buddhist doctrines and the presence of monks, natural beauty, and sacred objects; folklore plays; local traditional events; and archaeological and historical sites. Ecotourism, cultural tourism, archaeological tourism and historical tourism are the aspects of rural tourism that harmonize with components of the SLB resources.