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Chicken Little
A retelling of the classic story of Chicken Little, who has an acorn fall on his head and runs in a panic to his friends Henny Penny, Lucky Ducky, and Loosey Goosey, to tell them the sky is falling.
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Ethanol extract and chromatographic fractions of Tamarindus indica stem bark inhibits Newcastle disease virus replication
Context: The plethora of ethnomedicinal applications of Tamarindus indica Linn. (Leguminosae), tamarind, includes treatment of human and livestock ailments; preparations are recognized antipyretics in fevers, laxatives and carminatives. African folklore has various applications of tamarind. However, in Nyasaland, domestic fowl are fed with preparations for prophylactic properties.Objectives: The objective of this study is to evaluate the antiviral properties of T. indica extract.Materials and methods:Tamarindus indica stem bark was extracted through ethanol maceration over 24 h, and the crude extract was fractionated by gravity-propelled column chromatography. Newcastle disease virus (NDV) inhibitory activity of extract and fractions were evaluated in vivo using 10-d-old embryonated chicken egg (ECE) as the medium for virus cultivation and antivirus assay. About 240 ECE were grouped into eight (three controls and five experimental) and, 200 μL of the extract and fractions respectively inoculated into NDV pre-infected eggs and incubated at 37 °C. Allantoic fluid was harvested 5 d post-virus infection and assayed for haemagglutination (HA).Results: Anti-NDV assessment showed 62.5 mg/mL of crude extract and fractions: TiA, TiC and TiD to yield a HA titre of 1:128 each, while TiB showed 1:64 HA titre. At 125 mg/mL, a titre of 1:16 was recorded against TiB and TiD and, 1:8 against TiA. Similarly, crude extract and TiC, each recorded 1:4 HA titre. However, the minimum concentrations of extract and fraction for virus inactivation were 0.24 mg/mL and 0.49 mg/mL, respectively.Conclusion: The antiviral activity shown by T. indica portends novel antiviral drugs and, perhaps, as scaffold for new drugs.
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The little red hen : a favorite folk-tale
The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the bread she makes from it.
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Socrates' Dying Words (Plato Phaedo 118a) as an Aesopic Fable
John Burnet once interpreted the dying Socrates’ claim that he owes a rooster to Asclepius as meaning that he hopes to wake from death like one healed by incubation in the Asklepeion at Epidaurus. This article endorses Burnet's reading, and argues that Socrates’ words constitute an Aesopic fable.
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Mrs. Chicken and the hungry crocodile
When a crocodile captures Mrs. Chicken and takes her to an island to fatten her up, clever Mrs. Chicken claims that she can prove they are sisters and that, therefore, the crocodile shouldn't eat her.
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Liminal Livestock
Adapting subRosa Art Collective’s memorable question, this article asks, “What does it mean, to feminism and to agriculture, that women are like chickens and chickens are like women?” As liminal livestock, chickens play a central role in our gendered agricultural imaginary: the zone where we find the “speculative, propositional fabric of agricultural thought.” This article analyzes several children’s stories, a novel, and a documentary film in order to discover some of the factors that help to shape the role of women in agriculture and the role of agriculture in women’s lives.
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Another country
The great Australian Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil tells the tale about when his people’s way of life was interrupted by ours.
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Fears of Illness Progression and the Production of Risk: Two Ethnographic Case Studies in Northeast Thailand
This article considers common themes emerging from two ethnographic research projects in Northeast Thailand: one on women's reproductive health concerns, and another on children's fevers. Both projects revealed that illness experiences were substantially shaped by particular perceptions of risk—especially fears that a mild illness would progress to a fatal one—exacerbated by feelings of social vulnerability in clinical encounters. The analysis examines how experiences of risk were constructed in the context óf multiple, intersecting forces, ranging from \"ethnomedical\" perceptions to the impact of health education and prevention programs, pharmaceutical marketing, and social inequalities between patients and health providers. Cet article étudie des thématiques communes ayant surgi de deux projets de recherche ethnographique dans le nordest de la Thaïlande : un sur des enjeux de santé de la reproduction chez des femmes et un autre sur les fièvres chez les enfants. Les deux projets ont révélé que l'expérience de la maladie était significativement déterminée par des perceptions particulières du risque -en particulier par des craintes qu'une maladie bénigne n'évolue vers une maladie fatale -exacerbées par des sentiments de vulnérabilité sociale lors de rencontres cliniques. Eanalyse examine comment les expériences du risque ont été construites dans le contexte de multiples forces croisées, allant de perceptions « ethnomédicales » jusqu'à l'impact des programmes de prévention et d'éducation à la santé, du marketing pharmaceutique et des inégalités sociales entre les patients et les intervenants en matière de santé.
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Bakhtin's Carnival Laughter and the Cajun Country Mardi Gras
M.M. Bakhtin's social construction of Renaissance carnivals, and his views on carnival in general, encounter trouble when tested against a presentday enactment, the Cajun country Courir de Mardi Gras, a processional begging ritual celebrated in southern Louisiana. The living festival reveals structures missing from Bakhtin's élite sources and consequently from his writings: structures that articulate the folk community's autonomous values and cooperative survival strategies. As long as literary studies based on Bakhtin find in carnival only that which opposes élite culture, they will fail to recognise the dimensions of community selfcelebration and self-definition essential to many folk festivals.
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The Presence of the Past in the Cajun Country Mardi Gras
The Mardi Gras of Basile, Louisiana shows how past and present combine in a Cajun country festival. Accounts of current participants can be compared to memories of elders, contrasting past horseback processions with modern ones. A tradition of charity is continued, and some revelers believe Mardi Gras originated with French beggars, thus players now beg for food. The most noteworthy change from old times is a lack of begging at nursing homes and a change to pure entertainment of the elders.
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