Status of female convicts under British colonial rule (Penal Settlement) in Andaman-India: An analysis by Biswas, Swapan Kumar

“…As it was a gateway of Indian subcontinent, protection and control of these islands from foreign powers was the utmost priority of British Authority.By setting up the Andaman Penal Settlement, a permanent colony of convicts, the Britishers tried to welcome the families of the convicts from mainland India.To invite wives of the convicts and later on transporting the female convicts to Andaman was a well planned imperial policy.British colonial aggrandizement policy compelled the ordinary Indians to migrate as workforce in the newly built colonies.Accordingly, the British authorities instrumented the policy to transport prisoners from Indian jails to Penang, Burma, Malacca , Ceylon, Burma, Mauritius, Surya Nam, South Africa, Fiji to support workforce to develop industrial activities and thus the economy.Colonial policy was very regressive, especially, the Penal colonies had mercilessly devalued the status of Indian women. …”
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Bioclimatic Envelopes for Two Bat Species from a Tropical Island: Insights on Current and Future Distribution from Ecological Niche Modeling by A. P. Malsha J. Bandara, Buddhika D. Madurapperuma, Gayan Edirisinghe, Dinesh Gabadage, Madhava Botejue, Thilina D. Surasinghe

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Comparative GC Analysis, Bronchodilator Effect and the Detailed Mechanism of Their Main Component—Cinnamaldehyde of Three Cinnamon Species by Najeeb Ur Rehman, Faisal F. Albaqami, Mohammad Ayman A. Salkini, Noureldin M. Farahat, Hatim H. Alharbi, Saad M. Almuqrin, Maged S. Abdel-Kader, Asmaa E. Sherif

“…In the current study, GC, GC-MS and tracheal relaxant effect comparison were performed using the three available types in Saudi Arabia, <i>Cinnamomum verum</i> (Ceylon cinnamon), <i>C. cassia</i> (Chinese cinnamon) and <i>C. loureiroi</i> (Vietnamese cinnamon). …”
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Foreign Trade of British Raj at the Turn of the 20th Century: Analyzing Materials From Russia’s Diplomatic Missions by Igor V. Kryuchkov, Natalia D. Kryuchkova, Ashot A. Melkonyan

“…Nonetheless, British Raj was increasing its economic presence in Afghanistan, Persia, Nepal, Ceylon, Siam, and western provinces of China. An important place in India’s foreign trade was occupied by transit trade and re-export of goods from other states, which makes it difficult to accurately determine the actual volume of its foreign trade. …”
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Impacts of gamete concentration, age and contact time on the fertilization success in the tropical species of white sea urchin, Salmaciella dussumieri by Rahman, Md. Aminur, Md. Yusoff, Fatimah, Arshad, Aziz, Harmuj Ali Sarker, S. M. Nurul Amin

“…The globoid sea urchin (Salmaciella dussumieri) occurs abundantly in the Indo-West Pacific from the Island of the West Indian Ocean, East Africa, Magdagascar, Red Sea, South-East Arabia, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, North Australia, Philippine, China and South Japan and Australia, and also has significant biological, ecological, aquaculture, conservational and medicinal importance. …”
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Nutritional Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Selected Underutilized Fruits Grown in Sri Lanka by Shamara Perera, A. Buddhika G. Silva, Yashora Amarathunga, Shiromi De Silva, Renuka Jayatissa, Ashoka Gamage, Othmane Merah, Terrence Madhujith

“…The selected fruit species were Màdan (Syzygium cumini), Maha Karamba (Carissa carandas), Himbutu (Salacia chinensis), Ugurassa (Flacourtia indica), Barbados cherry (Malpighia emarginata), and Ceylon gooseberry (Dovyalis hebecarpa). The proximate composition, total dietary fiber content, mineral content, total phenolic content, and vanillin contents were determined using standard methods. …”
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Green and Cost-Effective Synthesis of Metallic Nanoparticles by Algae: Safe Methods for Translational Medicine by Bushra Uzair, Ayesha Liaqat, Haroon Iqbal, Bouzid Menaa, Anam Razzaq, Gobika Thiripuranathar, Nosheen Fatima Rana, Farid Menaa

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Identification and Spread of the Ghost Silverfish (<i>Ctenolepisma calvum</i>) among Museums and Homes in Europe by Pascal Querner, Nikolaus Szucsich, Bill Landsberger, Sven Erlacher, Lukasz Trebicki, Michał Grabowski, Peter Brimblecombe

“…<i>Ctenolepisma calvum</i> was first described in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in 1910, and this island is probably the origin of this species. …”
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Contemporary Sinhalese Buddhism in its relation to the Pali canon by Gombrich, R, Gombrich, Richard

“…<p>This thesis is based on a study of classical Pali texts and of materials gathered during a year spent in a village in central Ceylon. The material consists in particular of interviews with monks living in nearby village monasteries. …”

Essential Oil Chemotypes and Genetic Variability of <i>Cinnamomum verum</i> Leaf Samples Commercialized and Cultivated in the Amazon by Júlia Karla A. M. Xavier, Talissa Gabriele C. Baia, Oscar Victor C. Alegria, Pablo Luis B. Figueiredo, Adriana R. Carneiro, Edith Cibelle de O. Moreira, José Guilherme S. Maia, William N. Setzer, Joyce Kelly R. da Silva

“…<i>Cinnamomum verum</i> (Lauraceae), also known as “true cinnamon” or “Ceylon cinnamon” has been widely used in traditional folk medicine and cuisine for a long time. …”
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Spatial Forecasting of the Landscape in Rapidly Urbanizing Hill Stations of South Asia: A Case Study of Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka (1996–2037) by Manjula Ranagalage, Ruci Wang, M. H. J. P. Gunarathna, DMSLB Dissanayake, Yuji Murayama, Matamyo Simwanda

“…The observed LULC changes could negatively affect the production of unique upcountry agricultural products such as exotic vegetables, fruits, cut flowers, and world-famous Ceylon tea. Further, unplanned development could cause several environmental issues. …”
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Tree Diversity and Soil Characteristics in a Tea–Forest Interface in Southwest Sri Lanka by Nalaka Geekiyanage, Srimal Rathnayaka, Sriyani Gamage, Adikari Appuhamilage Dulanjala Sandamali, Shamodi Nanayakkara, Don Menige Sudesh Duminda, Savitri Gunatilleke, Nimal Gunatilleke

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Fabrication of r-GO/GO/α-Fe₂O₃/Fe₂TiO₅ Nanocomposite Using Natural Ilmenite and Graphite for Efficient Photocatalysis in Visible Light by Leshan Usgodaarachchi, Madara Jayanetti, Charitha Thambiliyagodage, Heshan Liyanaarachchi, Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran

“…In this paper, a straightforward synthesis strategy was employed to create 2D graphene-like reduced graphene oxide (r-GO) from Ceylon graphite. The two-step process comprises oxidation of graphite to graphene oxide (GO) using the improved Hummer’s method, followed by controlled reduction of GO to r-GO using L-ascorbic acid. …”
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In Vitro Antioxidant and In Vivo Antigenotoxic Features of a Series of 61 Essential Oils and Quantitative Composition–Activity Relationships Modeled through Machine Learning Algori... by Milan Mladenović, Roberta Astolfi, Nevena Tomašević, Sanja Matić, Mijat Božović, Filippo Sapienza, Rino Ragno

“…Finally, the most potent EOs in vitro, Ylang-ylang (<i>Cananga odorata</i> (Lam.)) and Ceylon cinnamon peel (<i>Cinnamomum verum</i> J. Presl), were promptly administered in vivo to evaluate the rescue ability against redox damage caused by CCl₄, thereby verifying their antioxidant and antigenotoxic properties either in the liver or in the kidney.…”
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Characterizations of Alpha-Cellulose and Microcrystalline Cellulose Isolated from Cocoa Pod Husk as a Potential Pharmaceutical Excipient by Olutayo A. Adeleye, Oluyemisi A. Bamiro, Doha A. Albalawi, Amenah S. Alotaibi, Haroon Iqbal, Saheed Sanyaolu, Mbang N. Femi-Oyewo, Kehinde O. Sodeinde, Zwanden S. Yahaya, Gobika Thiripuranathar, Farid Menaa

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Microplastics and Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Analysis in Sea Turtles and Bottlenose Dolphins along Mississippi’s Coast by Chanaka M. Navarathna, Hannah Pray, Prashan M. Rodrigo, Beatrice Arwenyo, Cassidy McNeely, Henry Reynolds, Natalie Hampton, Katherine Lape, Katie Roman, Maddie Heath, Sean Stokes, Sameera R. Gunatilake, Gombojav Ariunbold, Felio Perez, Rooban V. K. G. Thirumalai, EI Barbary Hassan, Islam Elsayed, Dinesh Mohan, Ashli Brown, Debra Moore, Stephen Reichley, Mark Lawrence, Todd E. Mlsna

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MaHPIC malaria systems biology data from Plasmodium cynomolgi sporozoite longitudinal infections in macaques by Jeremy D. DeBarry, Mustafa V. Nural, Suman B. Pakala, Vishal Nayak, Susanne Warrenfeltz, Jay Humphrey, Stacey A. Lapp, Monica Cabrera-Mora, Cristiana F. A. Brito, Jianlin Jiang, Celia L. Saney, Allison Hankus, Hannah M. Stealey, Megan B. DeBarry, Nicolas Lackman, Noah Legall, Kevin Lee, Yan Tang, Anuj Gupta, Elizabeth D. Trippe, Robert R. Bridger, Daniel Brent Weatherly, Mariko S. Peterson, Xuntian Jiang, ViLinh Tran, Karan Uppal, Luis L. Fonseca, Chester J. Joyner, Ebru Karpuzoglu, Regina J. Cordy, Esmeralda V. S. Meyer, Lance L. Wells, Daniel S. Ory, F. Eun-Hyung Lee, Rabindra Tirouvanziam, Juan B. Gutiérrez, Chris Ibegbu, Tracey J. Lamb, Jan Pohl, Sarah T. Pruett, Dean P. Jones, Mark P. Styczynski, Eberhard O. Voit, Alberto Moreno, Mary R. Galinski, Jessica C. Kissinger

“…Measurement(s) parasitemia • blood Chemistry • reticulocyte count • platelet activation status • neutrophil and monocyte activation after stimulation • T-cell phenotyping • B-cell phenotyping • monocyte phenotyping • dendritic cell phenotyping • lymphocyte phenotyping • multiplexed cytokine assay • erythropoietin measurement • total IgG concentration • transcriptome • metabolomics • lipidomics • proteomics Technology Type(s) brightfield microscopy • iSTAT machine • immunological flow cytometry • chemokine receptor markers • intracellular staining • ELISA • LC/MS Factor Type(s) Parasitemia Sample Characteristic - Organism Macaca mulatta • Plasmodium cynomolgi B/M strain • Plasmodium cynomolgi Ceylon Sample Characteristic - Environment venous blood • capillary blood…”
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Toxoplasmose humana: meningoencefalomielite toxoplasmica: ocorrência em adulto e recemnascido by F. Nery Guimarães

“…Doubtful are the cases reported by Castellani (Ceylon, 1914); Fedorovitch (The Black Sea, 1916); Chalmers & Kamar (Sudan, 1920); and Bland (London, 1930-31). …”
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