Kyungpook National University

About: Kyungpook National University is a education organization based out in Daegu, South Korea. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Large Hadron Collider. The organization has 20497 authors who have published 42107 publications receiving 834608 citations.

Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal–State Relations in the Southwest Yukon

Abstract: At first blush, it seems a very long reach from the aboriginal hunting camps of the Kluane in Canada’s Yukon wilderness to the poststructuralist environs of modern French philosophy. Yet a careful reading of Paul Nadasdy’s prodigious new work of contemporary ethnography reveals that geographically, culturally, and philosophically the distance involved is much less than might be expected. On the basis of three years of intimate fieldwork in the Kluane aboriginal nation’s main settlement of Burwash Landing, Nadasdy shows that the much-lauded land claims and treaty processes in Canada are, in fact, double-edged swords. The modes of thought, discourse, and organization required by these processes frequently do more to accomplish the erosion of cultural sovereignty than they do to protect or enhance it. Nadasdy starts by questioning the widely held assumption that the state is the monolithic structure its critics (and sometimes its proponents) imagine it to be. This allows him to discuss the complexities of state–nation interactions in the southwest Yukon in interesting ways. He can acknowledge, for example, the genuine concern many bureaucrats have for the well-being of wildlife and for the cultural and political integrity of the Kluane nation while simultaneously calling attention to the dangers for native people inherent to the land claims and treaty negotiations processes. This tactic is not, however, without its perils, as we shall see. Nadasdy stands in a scholarly tradition in ethnography that is best represented, perhaps, by Hugh Brody’s landmark Maps and Dreams or Bruce Chatwin’s slightly earlier. The Songlines, both of which are products of intensive participation in aboriginal communities; the former in Canada, the latter

Poly-cyclodextrin and poly-paclitaxel nano-assembly for anticancer therapy

Abstract: Polymer-based drug-delivery strategies can sometimes be hampered by the poor stability of polymer–drug conjugates and their ineffectual drug-release profiles. Here, the authors fabricate a cyclodextrin-based polymer–drug nano-assembly and demonstrate effective in vivo tumour reduction activity.

The genome landscape of indigenous African cattle

Abstract: The history of African indigenous cattle and their adaptation to environmental and human selection pressure is at the root of their remarkable diversity. Characterization of this diversity is an essential step towards understanding the genomic basis of productivity and adaptation to survival under African farming systems. We analyze patterns of African cattle genetic variation by sequencing 48 genomes from five indigenous populations and comparing them to the genomes of 53 commercial taurine breeds. We find the highest genetic diversity among African zebu and sanga cattle. Our search for genomic regions under selection reveals signatures of selection for environmental adaptive traits. In particular, we identify signatures of selection including genes and/or pathways controlling anemia and feeding behavior in the trypanotolerant N’Dama, coat color and horn development in Ankole, and heat tolerance and tick resistance across African cattle especially in zebu breeds. Our findings unravel at the genome-wide level, the unique adaptive diversity of African cattle while emphasizing the opportunities for sustainable improvement of livestock productivity on the continent.