This original research on Restoration Shinto Norito seeks to explain the rhetorical devices used in the composition of a morning prayer ritual text. The nativist scholar, Hirata Atsutane, crafted this ritual to create a Japanese imperial subject with a particular understanding of native identity and national unity, appropriate to the context of a Japan in the shadow of impending modernity and f...

There is a cultural unity of Europe, notwithstanding the Reformation. This unity must be 'consciously' recognized, in order to develop the concept of European togetherness. The paper will examine the common roots of the European vocabulary, submitting the project for the compilation of some dictionaries, to which European colleagues will be called to contribute. European languages must be studi...

The aim of this paper is establish levels of caries and periodontal diseases among 11-15year-olds school population in central Nigeria and to relate the results to studies reported over the past thirty years or so in Nigeria. A population of 642 students were surveyed and examined for caries and periodontal diseases following WHO criteria for estimation of possible levels. Healthy periodontal c...