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The Japanese 'adverbial particle' wa is usually argued to have topic and contrastive functions. The previous analyses on contrastive function of wa have two problems. First, they fail to account for 'association with contrast' in complex NP. Second, the notion of contrast has not been made explicit enough to account for an asymmetry between contrasts involving and not involving wa. This paper a...

INTRODUCTION IN 1953, through cooperation of the Bernard Price Geophysical Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Natal, a Columbia University-type long-period seismometer (To = 15 sec., Tg = 75 sec.) was installed in the seismological observatory of the University of Natal at Pietermaritzburg, Union of South Africa. This instrument was well situated for receivin...

Abstract Research on Western Armenian (WA) has described it as having a contrast between voiceless aspirated stops and voiced (Fairbanks 1948; Vaux 1998; Baronian 2017). Since there is no monolingual community of WA, all speakers are part minority language community, also speak the majority language. The current study examines from two heritage communities WA: one in Lebanon, where Arabic, US, ...

Taro is an ancient nutritional and medicinal crop woven into the fabric of socio-economic life those living in tropics sub-tropics. However, West Africa (WA), which has been a major producer for several decades, experiencing significant decline production as result taro leaf blight (TLB), disease caused by Phytophthora colocasiae Raciborski. A lack research on WA means that available innovative...

A commercial indirect hemagglutination (IHA) test using erythrocytes coated with Schistosoma mansoni adult worm antigens (WA) and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with S. mansoni egg antigens (SEA) were assessed for their use in serodiagnosis of imported schistosomiasis (hereafter these tests are designated WA/IHA and SEA/ELISA, respectively). The sensitivity of the tests was evalua...

In the present study, withaferin A (WA), a steroidal lactone with anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor properties, inhibited proteasome activity and induced endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and cytoplasmic HSP accumulation in Xenopus laevis A6 kidney epithelial cells. Proteasomal inhibition by WA was indicated by an accumulation of ubiquitinated protein and a decrease in chymotrypsin-like activity. Addit...

West Africa (WA) is among the most food insecure regions. Rapid human population growth and stagnating crop yields greatly contribute to this fact. Poor soil fertility, especially low plant available phosphorus (P) is constraining food production in the region. P-fertilizer use in WA is among the lowest in the world due to inaccessibility and high prices, often unaffordable to resource-poor sub...

Nadav Nitzan, Vegetable Forage Crops and Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Prosser, WA 99350; Marc A. Evans, Department of Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman 99164; Tom F. Cummings and Dennis A. Johnson, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164; Dallas L. Batchelor, Lamb-Weston, Pasco, WA 99301; Chris Olsen, L.J. Olsen, Inc., Othello, WA 99344; Kathleen G. ...