Feeding behavior of the invasive bivalve Limnoperna fortunei in the presence of single-celled, colonial, and filamentous cyanobacteria was tested in laboratory experiments to evaluate the effects of size and shape on mussel feeding. The first hypothesis holds that golden mussel filters more efficiently smaller particles, such as single cells of Microcystis, which could be more easily assimilate...

discourse analysis attempts as methodology to discover the interactions of language with intellectual-social structures within written and oral texts, as well as to study the meaning formation in relation to intralingistic and cross-linguistic factors. in other words, the conditions of meaningfulness are called discourse. this method has been achieved as the outcome of studies conducted by scho...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how the library management of the Raffles Library and Museum (the former name of the National Library of Singapore) positioned the library in relation to the wider colonial society of which it was a part. More widely, the aim is to explore the role of libraries within a colonial setting. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of his...

Aceh has the most enduring legacy of successful female leaders in world. The situation changed during past few decades, as fewer women hold crucial government positions. This paper traced history and their role through colonial post-colonial contexts from early years this century to present day. study also examined contributions made by Acehnese women's movement participation political life, we...

This article analyzes, througha postcolonial perspective, the literary works Foeand Youth, both written by J. M. Coetzee. It problematizes concept of mimicry as presented Homi K. Bhabha in his essay “Of and man: The ambivalenceof colonial discourse”. Analyzing actions characters John Friday, it becomes possible to perceive how they resort strategies attempt resist Western discourses power. Cons...

The early reception of Henry Lawson's work saw both the work and the artist produced as the Nation on the basis of a narrative gaze which eschewed imaginative embellishments of its object. Lawson's objective, unemotional, and realistic treatment of typically Australian scenes in the 1890s were celebrated as a National art and then transposed into a National knowledge. This process was part of a...

OBJECTIVE Between 1980 and 2008, two Pacific island nations - Nauru and the Cook Islands - experienced the fastest rates of increasing BMI in the world. Rates were over four times higher than the mean global BMI increase. The aim of the present paper is to examine why these populations have been so prone to obesity increases in recent times. DESIGN Three explanatory frames that apply to both ...

The aim of this paper is to study the rhetorical structure Ritual Bacabs, a colonial document great importance in context Yucatec Maya literature. After philological analysis, I will focus especially on textual rhetoric and marks orality ritual document. also symbolism networks paronomasias, used link diseases, body parts, animals medicinal plants same healing action. analysis its organization ...

Traditional British adventure fiction often portrays citizens as noble, civilized, upright and brave colonial gentlemen. Having known the nature of colonization colonizers, Conrad subverts such discourse tries to rewrite traditional national identity. However, because he is a man who opposes colonialism, but supports imperialism racism, identity that remains elements related racism reflects his...