Proverbs as a part of colloquial literature are always nourished by religion, culture, traditions, and philosophical beliefs of a community, and thus they mirror the common beliefs of a people. The frequent repletion of a proverb pregnant with a specific thought makes that type of thought a behavioral pattern and affects the actions and behaviors of the people of a society. In the Iranian socie...

TAL (transcription activator-like) effectors (TALEs) are bacterial proteins that are secreted from bacteria to plant cells to act as transcriptional activators. TALEs and related proteins (RipTALs, BurrH, MOrTL1 and MOrTL2) contain approximate tandem repeats that differ in conserved positions that define specificity. Using PERL, we screened ~47 million protein sequences for TALE-like architectu...

THISARTICLE FOCUSES ON THE PROFESSIONAL LIFE and experiences of D. W. Krummel, professor emeritus of Library and Information Science and Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In twelve interviews conducted in the spring, summer, and early fall of 1998, Krummel discussed the persons, places, experiences, and ideas most influential to him as a veteran and historian of librarian...

Since the early 1980s, composition studies has arrived at a broad consensus that it is important to understand how social contexts relate to the cognitive processes and individual behaviors involved in writing and reading texts, although within this broad consensus are various notions of context and of how contexts relate to processes and texts. Drawing on both structuralist and everyday accoun...

Here, using various examples and a number of Chinese proverbs, the authors indicate, draw parallels as well as highlight and examine the leadership lessons drawn from nature, particularly so, of the animal kingdom. Interestingly, the Chinese visor or perspective is added to these interpretations.

The article is devoted to elucidating the specifics of verbalisation concept BAHATSVO in proverbs and sayings based on Ivan Franko’s “Galician-Ruthenian folk tales” basis linguo-cognitive approach. Using method dictionary definitions, author describes semantic structure word-name BAHATSVO, which contains both uniform polytypic representing different lexico-semantic variants word. noun “bahatstv...

This paper is an exploration of Indigenous ontologies and ways thinking worldview that deviates from the Eurocentric critical frameworks often insufficiently portray or interpret nature specific indigenous cultures native epistemology. The focal point this study to explore ontology knowledge found in folktales oral narratives Zo tribes Southern Manipur. Zo’s geo-political state existence has be...

Three recent papers, published just weeks apart, describe the use of fluorescent TALEs to tag specific DNA sequences in live cells and, in one case, also in fixed cells, the latter with potential clinical applications.