Although copious and nuanced literary collections in Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan languages document non-Western contributions, these primary sources often are inaccessible to Western scholars, creating the false illusion that members of non-Western cultures have offered only marginal contributions...
Geographical Knowledge in Non-western Culturesdoi:10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_8608Hudson-Rodd, NancyJames Cook UniversityRodd, RobinJames Cook University
How do non-Western literary cultures present and depict Western culture? From the beginning, we need to acknowledge the breadth of this question. The world does not exist in terms of ''the West and the rest.'' When discussing non-Western cultures we are talking about a massive array of cu...
The complex problem we address here does not mean blindness or bias in rela- tion to non-Western cultures only. As Woodhead (2010) claims with regard to the concept of spirituality, it is often understood to be socially precarious when we think of institutions in terms of established churches...
In western cultures, the Y chromosome path of inheritance is usually the same as the surname, which means that the Y chromosome is uniquely positioned to identify the direct biological patrilineal lineage of males. Two different types of Y DNA tests can be ordered that work together to refine ...
NSW Centre for Rett Syndrome Research, Western Sydney Genetics Program, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Sarah L Williamson, Carolyn J Ellaway & John Christodoulou Disciplines of Paediatrics and Child Health and Genetic Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of...
All cells used in this work were patient-derived primary cultures, and all specimens were verified by comparison of short tandem repeat (STR) analysis performed peri- odically during the course of experimentation. Tumor- spheres were used to form xenografts and harvested for analysis as previously...
it proved impractical to find enough non-Western material, and the present corpus is effectively English. This lack of a balanced design means that the absence of group effects must be interpreted with caution. Nevertheless, if emotional vocalizations rely on culture-specific codes, the participants...
Western blotting Cells were lysed in LCW lysis buffer (0.5% Triton X-100, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate salt, 150 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris-HCl, 10 mM EDTA, 30 mM sodium pyrophosphate tetrabasic decahydrate) containing protease and phosphatase inhibitor mixture (cOmplete and phoSTOP, Roche), ...