Rich Territory Research Articles

Ethnobotanical importance of families Apocynaceae, Asteraceae, and Fabaceae (Angiosperms) among Rajasthan tribes, India

The families Apocynaceae, Asteraceae, and Fabaceae are well-known among Angiosperms for providing ethnic or traditional food and medicine. The Apocynaceae family is highly valued for its medicinal properties, providing a rich source of drugs used in conventional and modern medicine. This family is a powerhouse of medicinal activity with 4600 species under 415 genera. Similarly, the Asteraceae family is renowned for its edible and medicinal weeds grown for over 3000 years, making it a well-known source of natural remedies. The family mainly contains taxa with inulin, a natural polysaccharide with pro-biotic properties. However, it has been recognized that many other bioactive compounds can be found within this family. With approximately 665 genera and 17500 species worldwide and over 1100 species and 100 genera in India alone, the Fabaceae family significantly contributes to the world's flora. The genera of this family are well known for producing a diverse range of phytochemicals, including 3-nitropropanoic acid, a potent mycotoxin. It is worth noting that almost every tribe in India, particularly Rajasthan, is aware of the therapeutic properties of various plants from these families. The arid state of India boasts rich territories that host an array of plant families. By delving into the scientific literature on the phytochemical properties and ethnobotanical uses of various plant families, valuable insights can be gained that could enable us to better understand and utilize these plants. This knowledge could lead to discoveries and innovations in plant-based medicine and agriculture.

Foster Puppies as Therapeutic Partners: A Model for Mutual Benefit

Abstract Ample research points to the positive impact of nonhuman animals on humans and the benefits of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) on patients in multiple settings. However, AAT is often a one-sided enterprise, whereby the focus of concern for benefit and growth is centered on the human, and less, or not at all, on the nonhuman animal. We present a model that emphasizes approximate equal benefit for human and nonhuman animals. A treatment approach is described that combines socialization and training of homeless dogs and puppies to increase adoption rates and assess for suitability as therapy or working dogs, with rehabilitating and supporting clients. This model of mutual benefit demonstrates prosocial behavior for clients who participate in the socialization and preparation of homeless puppies for permanent homes in combination with their existing therapeutic goals and is rich territory for symbolic exploration. A case study is presented as an illustration of the model.

Early farming settlement of the marginal zone of loess uplands and its palaeoenvironmental context – a case study of the Iłża Piedmont (S Poland)

Abstract The results of previous researches conducted across the upland territories of Central Europe reflect a considerably close correlation between the settlement by prehistoric agricultural societies and the ranges of the local loess covers. This correspondence – caused mainly by the high utility value of the territories in question, especially the presence of fertile soils and convenient geomorphological and hydrological conditions – is apparent even for the earliest phase of the Neolithic, and is clearly confirmed for later periods of prehistory. Until recently, this state of research concurred the interpretation that the neighbouring non-loess uplands had not been permanently settled, but only temporarily penetrated in order to exploit local resources (e.g., flint outcrops). This observation also applies to the territory being the essential subject of this paper, that is the sandy loam areas of the Iłża Piedmont, which is the direct northern forefield of the loess Sandomierz Upland. The results of interdisciplinary research conducted in this territory during the last several years allow us to considerably complete and verify the previous findings. They clearly confirm the intense and long-lasting character of the local settlement between the Early Neolithic and the Early Iron Age, as well as the typically agricultural activities of societies linked with different cultures that successively settled the discussed area during that time period. The obtained data show us the previously little known phenomenon of forming and functioning of the settlement microregions occupying uplands located outside the range of the compact loess cover, that is within ecological and landscape zones that were not preferred by prehistoric, early agricultural societies inhabiting the old upland territories of Central Europe. They also indirectly indicate the considerable flexibility and adaptability of early farmers, which made it possible for them to effectively colonise the definitely less rich territories located outside the compact area of the loess uplands since as early as the earliest phase of the Neolithic. This fact creates important possibilities for future research, allowing us to suspect that analogous settlement clusters also existed across the peripheral zones of other Central European loess uplands.

Lean start-up, entrepreneurship and remote orientation: The experience of action research in Manaus, Brazil

PurposeCreating a new product or service promotes the status quo changes, seeking economic value and solving customer's urgent problems. Entrepreneurs play an important role in this changing process through start-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), considered one of the leading forces driving an economy’s innovative and competitive power. However, despite the importance of entrepreneurs, public policies to foster entrepreneurship ecosystems could be ineffective in emerging countries. Therefore, action research proposes the qualification of entrepreneurs for the structuring of new businesses through remote orientation, connecting the country's main economic centers to emerging areas.Design/methodology/approachThe study is qualitative research comprising two phases. The first phase consisted of four-month action research, connecting two researchers and three groups of specialists (from Sao Paulo), with three groups of entrepreneurs (located in Manaus in the Amazon region), through a remote orientation in entrepreneurship, lean start-up, lean product and process development (LPPD). The second phase, conducted by a third researcher, regards a case study grounded on interviews and data collection with the entrepreneurs to capture the outcomes of the remote orientation process.FindingsThe remote orientation helped shorten the geographical distance of Amazonas to approach the integration of business, research and knowledge exchange of such distinct areas in the same country. If a remote orientation program was established as public policy, it could enact subsequent cycles of the lean start-up model. Furthermore, the remote orientation could be an alternative to compose the training subsystem in the entrepreneurship ecosystem proposed by Isenberg (2011). On the other hand, a remote orientation could fail to shorten the distance of human values and beliefs, which cannot be neglected when facing a rich territory like the Amazon.Research limitations/implicationsBecause of the chosen research approach, a qualitative and exploratory study based on a combination of action research, interviews and case studies, the results may lack generalizability. However, further studies can replicate the remote orientation process conducted in the region of Manaus – Amazon, to obtain distinct results regarding the advantages, disadvantages and effectiveness of remote orientation as entrepreneurship ecosystem’s human capital dimension development.Practical implicationsThe outcomes of this research have the potential to start discussions regarding the adoption of remote orientation as a public policy to develop entrepreneurship skills in emerging regions, not only in Brazil but worldwide. The Brazilian case could be a relevant benchmark due to the large territory and economic and social disparities impacting education and entrepreneurship.Social implicationsThrough start-ups and SMEs, entrepreneurship has innovation potential and is the most solid way to bring economic development. For emerging countries, it can be real game-changer in the economic order. The development of entrepreneurship skills through this remote orientation experience can help reduce the economic and social gaps in countries with relevant disparities like Brazil and other emerging countries.Originality/valueThis paper fulfills an identified need to “move the needle of entrepreneurship in the right direction” (Isenberg, 2010) by creating local solutions for global challenges. Policymakers and leaders need to continue the experiment and learn how to improve the entrepreneurship ecosystem. In this sense, the action research approach, combined with the remote orientation, proposes an alternative to promote changes in how human capital dimension can be developed in this challenging ecosystem.

Damastion kentinin Orta Dardanya topraklarındaki izleri

Following the footsteps of ancient civilizations is not easy at all. One should always start from the oldest data, going through the itineraries of guidebooks, legends, legends, comparisons, archaeological excavations, assumptions and hypotheses of different authors.
 The territory of Dardania, was a very rich territory with various and very precious mines and minerals, and also to search for a very rich city and civilization which is known more by its coins, is also challenging but also easily defined. According to the data and finds of coins from this city we see that we have done with the extension of the monopoly all over the Illyrian Peninsula, including Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo as well.
 Therefore, we should always look for the city of Damastion in the area of ancient Dardania, since this area also had an influence on the entire region.

The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures by Francesca Orsini, Neelam Srivastava, and Laetitia Zecchini, eds.

<i>The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures</i> by Francesca Orsini, Neelam Srivastava, and Laetitia Zecchini, eds.

DNA‐Encoded Synthetic Systems: Coding More than Life

DNA‐Encoded Synthetic Systems: Coding More than Life

Ethnomedicinal importance of Fabaceae family (Angiosperms) among the tribes of Rajasthan, India

Among angiosperms, the Fabaceae (Leguminosae) family is well known for providing traditional or ethnic food and medicine. This family has three subfamilies with approximately 665 genera and 17500 species worldwide, with approximately 1100 species and 100 genera represented in India. &lt;i&gt;Astragalus&lt;/i&gt; (&gt;3000 species), &lt;i&gt;Acacia&lt;/i&gt; (&gt;1000 species), and &lt;i&gt;Indigofera&lt;/i&gt; (&gt;700 species) are the largest genera in this family. Many species in these genera have been identified as producing a variety of phytochemicals, including 3-nitropropanoic acid, a powerful mycotoxin. Almost every tribal community in India is aware of the medicinal uses of leguminous plants. In this regard, India's arid state can be regarded as an extremely rich territory; thus, a review of the scientific literature on their phytochemical characteristics and ethnomedicinal uses is expected to contribute to the further exploration and utilization of members of this large plant family.

Just a famous actor sitting in front of a judge: Hugh Grant’s presentation of self in the Leveson inquiry

ABSTRACT With its attempts at humour, loosely controlled expressive behaviour and balance of haughtiness and deference, Hugh Grant’s testimony for the Leveson inquiry is rich territory for the analysis of celebrity self-presentation that complicates the dichotomous paradigm of ‘persona’ versus ‘veridical self’. Through detailed analysis of Grant’s physicality and use of prosody, this article focuses on his performance of status and use of humour during the cross-examination. These are contextualised within his diegetic and interview performances to argue that, in this presentation of self, Grant showcases his comedic performance technique but seems less concerned with presenting a signature set of mannerisms, which scholars have noted conventional star performance entails. Rather, Grant performs his celebrity status through a posture of stiff hauteur, which enables the humour in his self-deprecating remarks, both of which are key elements of his persona.

Dénouement: A Subjective Reflection on Death, Loss and Grief through Animation Practice

Death, a universal human experience, has been represented and understood in numerous ways throughout time and across cultures. Dénouement is a practice-based research project that engages with the emotionally fraught and complex experience of losing a loved one. The research positions the medium of hand-drawn animation as rich territory for exploring visual expressions of the internal, psychological, and abstract dialogue when grieving. As a personal reflection of in-articulable feelings, the aim is not to show the world as it is but as it is travelled through psychologically.&#x0D; The final short film underpins the practitioner’s passion for drawing the world (as they see it), moving it in time and moving those who view the work, emotionally.&#x0D; This article is a reflective dénouement of the author's Master's journey. The full Master's thesis can be accessed here: https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/15296&#x0D; &#x0D;

Amy Kaplan and the McDonaldization of Mark Twain

Amy Kaplan and the McDonaldization of Mark Twain

Diversity and Abundance of Delineated Earthworm (Annelida: Clitellata) in Pakistan: A Review.

Earthworm, a ubiquitous (but neglected) macro-invertebrate, is found in terrestrial vicinity of Pakistan. Moreover, the occurrence of earthworms is often diverse with fluctuating quantity depending upon abiotic factors and land usage patterns. The aim of this study was to summarize all the reported information related to earthworm diversity in different areas of Pakistan. Almost all the data published from year 2001 to 2021 were collected. Following data organization, total 42 earthworm's species including five families (Acanthodrilidae, Lumbricidae, Moniligastridae, Octochaetidae and Megascolecidae) were reported from various researchers. Among five families, family Acanthodrilidae was found to have only one specie (Ramiella bishambari), Lumbricidae consist of 10 species (Apporactodea rosea, Allolobophora trapezoids, Allolobophora chloroticaa, Aporrectodea longa, A. caliginosa, Bimastus parvus, Eisenia fetida, Helodrilus foetidus, Lumbricus terrestris and L. rubillus), Moniligastridae has two species (Drawida nepalensis and D. pellucida) while Octochaetidae possess only one specie (Eutyphoeus incommodus). The most abundant and diverse family Megascolecidae consist of 28 earthworm species in all habitats of different regions of Pakistan. Among geographical areas, Faisalabad was found as the richest territory with most reported earthworm species (i.e. 28). The current study suggests further in depth research to explore the unidentified and/ missing species of earthworms in Pakistan.

Translating Difference: The Ambiguous Representation of the ‘Exotic’ in Wyndham Lewis’s Journey into Barbary: Travels across Morocco

Difference is dealt with paradoxically in discourse: sometimes, it is admired and eulogized by the perceiver to the extent of fetishism; other times, however, it represents a mixture of both love and repulsion. The concept of representation does not stand for a homogeneous idea, but engenders a plethora of other concepts that lead to an inevitable crossing of various disciplines. In this regard, Journey into Barbary offers a rich territory for the study of crosscultural encounters and the representation of difference. The paper investigates the discursive ambiguity in Lewis’s representation of Morocco. The focus is on the fluctuation between a celebration of exoticism, and an assertion of ethnocentrism and superiority. The paper analyses Lewis’s travelogue considering recent theories in postcolonial criticism, attempting to unravel and demonstrate the author’s biased racial attitudes and ethnocentric tendencies in representing Moroccan people and culture, as well as his representation of other cultures – which I refer to as the translation of difference – as manifested in his description of Berbers.

Venezuela's Gold Heist: The Symbiotic Relationship between the State, Criminal Networks and Resource Extraction

Venezuela is struck by a catastrophic economic crisis caused by widespread corruption, government mismanagement and lack of economic diversification. In 2016, President Maduro decreed the Orinoco Mining Arc: a large biodiverse region now destined for mining development. This article analyses harms inflicted on communities and environment following this development. Subsistence miners, local populations, and vulnerable ecosystems suffer in this struggle for power and wealth. Violent encounters by groups that aim to control mineral rich territories cause many local and regional conflicts. In these conflicts, state and criminal actors often collide or collaborate.

Darren Dochuk, Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America

American Religion 2, no. 2 (Spring 2021), pp. 139–141 Copyright © 2021, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.2.09 Book Review Darren Dochuk, Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America (New York: Basic Books, 2019) Chad E. Seales University of Texas, Austin, USA The story of crude oil is the story of American Christianity. This is the main argument and major contribution of one of the more significant works in American religious history in the last decade. To begin, this is a heavy book, with the literal feel and allegorical mood of a biblical epic. It opens with the prophetic figure Patillo Higgins, riding into Beaumont, Texas, on horseback in the early twentieth century to learn that another oilman, Anthony Lucas, already had struck black gold on the same hill, Spindletop, that Higgins had believed for many years was the place to drill. Rather than concede this rich territory and move on down the trail, Higgins stuck around and finally was able to drill nearby, on another part of Spindletop, thus fulfilling his own prophecy. A bible believer who converted to evangelical Protestantism in 1885 and later joined First Baptist Church of Beaumont in 1891, Higgins viewed his success as evidence of God’s blessing and considered crude oil to be imbued with a sacred power that if harnessed properly could fuel the Christian enterprise of American supremacy. With its Christian faith in the sacred power of crude oil, the story of Patillo Higgins captures the premise of the book, which is that American oilmen shared a basic set of tenets regarding religion and crude. They all believed oil to be a source of God’s power on earth, and that if they struck it rich, it was because American Religion 2:2 140 they were following God’s lead and thus owed him something in return. That something in return was a promise to use the power of oil, both as an extracted resource and capitalized wealth, to promote and fund Christian missions in the name of the Lord. In this way, the upstart Higgins had much in common with his fellow Baptist John D. Rockefeller, the well-established oil baron of the northeast who refused to invest in Higgins’s dreams to discover crude in Texas. What they shared, what pretty much all the oilmen who make an appearance in the book share, is a religious conviction to dig and drill and extract with a self-assurance that such a violent enterprise was part of God’s plan. They all agreed that one should drill for oil because it was divinely sanctioned, a source of power to promote God’s Kingdom. What they disagreed on, however, was how to organize that pursuit. The majority of the book parses the theological and sectarian differences between two strands of oil religion in the US, differences that distinguished the establishment from the upstarts. The major oil companies, like Standard Oil, institutionalized the established religion of oil, with big men like Rockefeller using the material power of oil to fund ecumenical visions of global missions that comprised a “civil religion of crude.” This civil religion aligned with humanitarian capitalism, or noblesse oblige, where really, really, really rich white men, like Rockefeller, funded civil society, from public libraries to art galleries, an approach that Dochuk associates with the social gospel. By contrast, the upstarts like Higgins practiced a “wildcat Christianity.” Their religion was built on the “rule of capture,” an unofficial doctrine, or unwritten rule of the game, that maintained every man had access to the oil under the ground, provided he could drill it out, regardless of who owned the land above it. This was, of course, anathema to a monopolistic model of empire of the Rockefeller kind. The book’s twelve chapters work out such key tensions in the narrative of American oil, of how to build a corporation, how to institutionalize power, how to maintain global reach. The strength of the book is in the scope and details of this story, of how it begins in early twentieth-century turf wars and regional variations and continues forward, restructured, into the next century...

Aproximación a la percepción social del patrimonio natural y cultural entre sectores clave de turismo en Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, México

Esta investigación analiza la percepción social del patrimonio natural y cultural (especialmente arqueológico) entre sectores claves de San Andrés Tuxtla y Catemaco, Veracruz, en la Reserva de la Biósfera de Los Tuxtlas. Metodológicamente, aplicamos entrevistas semiestructuradas para diagnosticar necesidades de formación sobre patrimonio natural y cultural a productores de bienes y servicios turísticos y funcionarios públicos, y realizamos talleres con enfoque colaborativo para sensibilizar, revalorizar y reactivar aspectos de cultura material e inmaterial que impulsen productos turísticos orientados a conservar el patrimonio natural y cultural. Los resultados muestran percepciones desiguales sobre el patrimonio natural y cultural, también un reconocimiento del potencial que representa la cultura y los elementos patrimoniales cuyo aprovechamiento puede ser beneficioso para las economías local y regional, siempre que haya una participación transversal de los sectores involucrados. Se concluye que es necesaria la valoración de la cultura para su inclusión en programas de formación sobre turismo cultural sustentable, fortalecer la vinculación entre sectores gubernamentales, sector privado, población local, académicos y turistas, recalcando la importancia de reactivar y reforzar las identidades de una sociedad asentada en un territorio cultural y ecológicamente rico.

Spaces for Creativity in Mediterranean Archaeological Heritage Management

AbstractPublic Archaeology in the Mediterranean Context (#pubarchMED) is a project that focuses on the management of archaeological heritage in the Mediterranean context from the perspective of public archaeology. Ranging from fully public models where preventive archaeology itself is a challenge to mixed models where the outsourcing of this work has been accomplished to a full extent, the variety of solutions is wide and with a common trend: struggle with mitigation and little space for creativity. This article will delve into the range of models that exist in the Mediterranean, exploring the way they approach, first of all, preventive/rescue archaeology, and then, the relationship between archaeology and society in the process. Building on the challenges of an underfunded scheme for an extremely archaeologically rich territory, different solutions have been set in practice—in some cases, under the auspices of competent administrations in the form of public policy—in the endeavor to include public archaeology in the practice, mostly encouraged by professionals as a personal or corporate initiative, and sometimes even consciously avoided. The discussion will offer some ideas for creative mitigation in the different scenarios, built on the comparative study and the broad possibilities to engage stakeholders positively in the process.

История открытия и начальные этапы изучения Фирсовского археологического микрорайона

Фирсовский археологический микрорайон (ФАМ), впервые выделенный и обоснованный А.Б. Шамшиным, является одним из интереснейших археологических комплексов Верхнего Приобья. На относительно ограниченной территории правобережья Оби в устьевой зоне р. Лосихи сосредоточено свыше трех десятков разнофациальных и разновременных объектов. Большое количество археологических объектов на ограниченном отрезке берега можно объяснить несколькими факторами. Первый — это степной характер правого борта долины Оби от села Кислухи до села Фирсово. Такой ландшафт пригоден для эффективного скотоводческого хозяйства. Второй фактор — впадение на этой территории в Обь нескольких малых рек — Лосихи, Повалихи, Кислухи и др. Третий фактор — чрезвычайно богатые биологическими ресурсами территории данного географического региона: обширная речная пойма, сосновый бор и примыкающие к нему степные пространства. Такие памятники, как некрополь Фирсово XIV и поселение позднего бронзового века Фирсово XVIII, являются крупнейшими на юге Западной Сибири. До сих пор при обследовании отдельных участков ФАМ ученые открывают все новые и новые памятники различных эпох. История открытия и изучения данного комплекса, насчитывающая уже более ста лет, является своеобразным срезом, маркирующим различные периоды развития науки, а также создание периодизации и хронологии древнейшей истории региона.

THE ARKHANGELSK REGION AS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH AND THE WESTERN GATE OF THE NORTHERN SEA ROUT

The Arkhangelsk region is one of 11 regions of the Russian Federation within the North-West Federal District (NWFD), which unites two economic regions — the North and North-West. Today it represents the largest region of the whole European part of Russia. The article discusses the changing role of the Archangelsk lands in the historical context and their ability to develop in the modern, sometimes not always simple conditions of globalization of the world economy, where international cooperation comes to the fore, based mainly in this particular case on the export of natural resources, which are rich territory. At this time, the economic activity of the Arkhangelsk region is characterized by the predominant raw material component. Based on this, the most important strategic goal is the reorientation of the regional economy to the production of products of deeper processing and to a certain extent with high added value. This refers to the processing industry. The author pays great attention to the problems of small business in local conditions and focuses on such leading segments of the entire industrial complex as the forest industry and shipbuilding. Due to its geographical position, which is favorable from many points of view, the port city of Arkhangelsk itself is considered as a base for the development of the Arctic territories of the Russian Federation and the further effective use of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Sincere concern to the creator of the article is caused by the environmental problems of the Arkhangelsk region and measures taken to protect the environment.

Imaging Chromosome Territory and Gene Loci Positions in Cells Grown on Soft Matrices.

It is well established that the genome is non-randomly organized in the interphase nucleus with gene rich chromosome territories toward the nuclear interior, while gene poor chromosome territories are proximal to the nuclear periphery. In vivo tissue stiffness and architecture modulates cell type-specific genome organization and gene expression programs. However, the impact of external mechanical forces on the non-random organization of the genome is not completely understood. Here we describe a modified protocol for visualizing chromosome territories and gene loci positions in cells exposed to reduced matrix stiffness by employing soft polyacrylamide matrices. 3-Dimensional Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (3D-FISH) protocol followed by image analyses performed on cells exposed to extracellular matrices of varying stiffness properties, enables the determination of the dynamics of chromosome territories as well as gene loci in the interphase nucleus. This will be useful in understanding how chromosome territories respond to changes in substrate stiffness and the potential correlation between the repositioning of chromosome territories and their respective transcriptional profiles.