A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple. faradization noun (n.) The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes. farcimen noun (n.) Alt. of Farcin far...
This paper aims to examine the meaning of "treatment" for sexual offenders, with reference to the early critique of this term by McGuire and Priestley (1985) and its current usage in association with programmes in the criminal justice an... Vivian-byrne,Sue - 《Journal of Sexual Aggression》...
Over a third of all adults and young people surveyed had never heard of the term before. For those who had heard the word before, there was confusion as to what boffin meant. Suggestions that were put forward of what boffin means included a kind of bird, a type of biscuit, or even a...
You have to weigh whether you want to improve your odds of surviving 10 or 15 years by a few percentage points in exchange for short-term, or perhaps long-term, misery. Or are you more drawn to the least disruptive traditional therapy coupled with alternative approaches like nutrition and im...
Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" delights in the short stories' eclectic intertextuality and multiplicity of meaning:Although "The Bloody Chamber" seems to promise an exit (if only one ... M Makinen - 《Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature》 被引...
who was well-known for her learning and versed in Hebrew and Greek as well as the Latin classics. They soon fell in love with each other, starting a romance affair as teacher and student. When Fulbert found out their love affair, they joined in matrimony secretly. However, to restore his...
And it is in this sense (of human reality) that I use the term reality when placing it against a backdrop, such as the worlds of "The Carrick," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and "The Metamorphosis," which are specific fantasies....
Christopher Palmer's 1991 programme note used the term Mozartian, but the composers who came to mind were Rachmaninov and Tippett; Rachmaninov for the big boned romanticism piece, particularly the piano writing, whilst Tippett for the way the piano texture sometimes eschewed showy bravura (but not...
(The term "Pieces of Eight" comes from being able to split the old Spanish dollar into 8 bits, each of which still counted for money. That's why a 25-cent piece today is still "two bits".) bit shift The movement of bits left or right in a computer word, which has the effect ...
For example, ~*foxes were notorious for the obnoxious odor they emitted. According to the late Tang historian Chen Yinque Ji[ t~, the medieval Chinese term for armpit odor, "fox stench" [huchou 111\~], might have been derived from "barbarian odor" [huchou t)j ~], because this type...