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Effect of Fibre-Enriched Orange Juice on Postprandial Glycaemic Response and Satiety in Healthy Individuals: An Acute, Randomised, Placebo-Controlled…
2019
Background: Consumption of fibre-enriched orange juice may be an appropriate way to supplement daily fibre intake and achieve beneficial effects on metabolic health. The present study aimed to assess the short-term effects of fibre-enriched orange juice on postprandial metabolism and satiety in a healthy adult population. Methods: In this double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, crossover study 10 healthy subjects underwent two one-day trials in which they consumed an orange juice beverage containing 1.4 g/100 mL of citrus fibre (29.3% soluble and 41.9% insoluble) or a placebo (regular orange juice without added fibre). Postprandial glucose, insulin, gut hormones (GLP1, GIP and ghrelin…
Unveiling the role of upper excited electronic states in the photochemistry and laser performance of: anti -B18H22
2020
13 pags., 7 figs., -- This article is part of the themed collection: Journal of Materials Chemistry C HOT Papers
On the Borana Calendrical System: A Preliminary Field Report
1988
This article addresses the astronomical functioning of the lunar calendar of the Oromo Borana (Ethiopia and Kenya). It is based on the participant observation method, observing the night sky over a time of about one year with Bante Abbagala, a Borana expert in time reckoning. Differently from previous ethnographic accounts and hypotheses, the author suggests that the Borana implicitly add an intercalary month that allows keeping correspondence between season and the name of the lunar month, even if they do not acknowledge it. They do not consider the declination of the moon, sun or stars. They rather apply a complex devise that allows the direct evaluation of the relative right ascension po…
The Oromo Eschatology: The Prophecy Of Areeroo Boosaroo, Narrated By Borbor Bulee And Guyyoo Dambii
2005
This article provides the first ethnographic account of prophetic text and poetry among the Borana. It was ethnographically constructed by the join efforts of an indigenous anthropologist, an africanist anthropologist, and a Borana oral historian.
Boorana
2003
Returnees in Mooyyale District, Southern Ethiopia: New Means for an Old Inter-Ethnic Game
1997
Institutional Forgiveness in Borana Assemblies
1992
Forward
2006
Forward
1995
Prophecy and Apocalypse among the Oromo-Borana: The Power of Chiasmus
2018
This chapter bridges the rhetoric culture and anticipation theoretical domains for reinterpreting the prophetic and apocalyptic texts on the Oromo-Borana (Ethiopia). The analysis qualifies prophecy as a practice of anticipation, a rational and collective exercise of criticism to current social trends, facilitated by creative individuals that make full use of the cognitive potential of chiasmus and other rhetorical devises.