Xoco language

Xoco (Choco, Shoko) is definitely an extinct and poorly attested language or languages of South america that isn’t considered to be associated with other languages. You are able to from three populations: Xoko (Choco) in Sergipe, Kariri-Xoco (Kariri-Shoko, Cariri-Choco) in Alagoas, and Xukuru-Kariri (Xucuru-Kariri, Xucuru-Cariri) in Alagoas. It’s not obvious if they were one language or three. It is just known from the couple of dozen words in one Kariri-Xoco elder and three Xukuru-Kariri elders in 1961.

It had been initially spoken across the Pianco River is definitely an area that’s now a suburb of Porto Real do Colegio.

In ISO encoding, the word what was conflated using the Kariri family as ISO 639-3 [kzw] ‘Kariri-Xoco’ Ethnologue doesn’t indicate if the would be a conscious decision.

Xoco, Xukuru, and Kariri are common generic names in the area. See Kariri languages.

Choco vocabulary collected in Colegio, Alagoas:

Note: Loukotka (1968) transcribes ‘man’ as mazyikeːoː.

Five Xukuru-Kariri word lists collected by Menno Kroeker in Alagoas in 1961 are printed in Meader (1978).

Words recorded from your seniors male paje (shaman) in Porto Real do Colegio:

Words recorded from Alfredo Caboquim, a paje (shaman), and the brother Miguel Caboquim in Fazenda Conta, Palmeira dos Indios, Alagoas:

Words recorded from your seniors player in Fazenda Conta, Palmeira dos Indios, Alagoas:

Words recorded from Joao Candido da Silva, a youthful player in Fazenda Conta, Palmeira dos Indios, Alagoas:

Words recorded from Jose Fermino da Silva of Palmeira dos Indios, Alagoas:

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Yamato 2520

Yamato 2520 (YAMATO2520, Yamato Ni Go Ni Zero) was Yoshinobu Nishizaki’s attempt for a follow up to Space Battleship Yamato, set hundreds of years following the original series. However, Nishizaki was sued by Leiji Matsumoto for breach of copyright. Ultimately, Yamato 2520 remained incomplete for only three episodes (of planned ten) were released. The 3 episodes arrived on the scene in laserdisc format for home media.

The OVA series features mechanical designs by Syd Mead along with a soundtrack by jazz music performer David Matthews.

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Zymology

Zymology


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Zymology, also referred to as zymurgy (in the Greek: zymosis+ergon, “the workings of fermentation”) is definitely an applied science which studies the biochemical procedure for fermentation and it is practical uses. Common topics include selecting fermenting bacteria and yeast species as well as their use within brewing, wine-making, fermenting milk, and the building of other fermented foods.

Fermentation can be defined, within this context, because the conversion of sugar molecules into ethanol and co2 by yeast.

French chemist Louis Pasteur was the very first zymologist while in 1857 he connected yeast to fermentation. Pasteur initially defined fermentation as respiration without air.

Pasteur performed careful research and concluded,

I’m of the perception that alcoholic fermentation never occurs without synchronised organization, development and multiplication of cells . . .. If requested, with what consists caffeine act whereby the sugar is decomposed . . . I’m completely unaware of it.

The German Eduard Buchner, champion from the 1907 Nobel Prize in chemistry, later determined that fermentation was really the result of a yeast secretion he termed zymase.

The study efforts carried out through the Danish Carlsberg scientists greatly faster the rise in understanding about yeast and brewing. The Carlsberg scientists are usually acknowledged[by whom?] as getting jump-began the whole field of molecular biology.

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