Navajo Names for Plants

Plants and geographical names in Croatia.

The main purpose of this paper is to present some general observations, regularities and insights into a complex relationship between plants and people through symbolic systems like geographical names on the territory of Croatia. The basic sources of data for this research were maps from atlas of Croatia of the scale 1:100000. Five groups of maps or areas were selected in order to represent mai...

Mandragora and Belladonna – the Names of Two Magic Plants

Comparison of Corriedale x Navajo and Romney x Navajo crosses.

Navajo Windtalkers

Using Navajo for cryptography is a very powerful tool due to the complex nature of the language. Up until the 1930’s The Navajo Languages had remained unwritten. It was not until 1939 that a standardized alphabet was created. The language also did not have any symbols. In Navajo, only four vowels exist: A, E, I, O, but each of these can have up to 10 different intonations. A word could change i...

Diabetes in Navajo Youth

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence and incidence of diabetes, clinical characteristics, and risk factors for chronic complications among Navajo youth, using data collected by the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study (SEARCH study). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The SEARCH study identified all prevalent cases of diabetes in 2001 and all incident cases in 2002-2005 among Navajo youth. We estimate...