Thiscapabilitytoexchangeinformationonaglobalbasis,beitatelephonecalloranewsstory,ismadepossiblethroughapowerfulcommunicationstool-thesatellite.Forthoseofuswhogrewupatatimewhenthespaceagewasnotaparteverydaylife,satellite-basedcommunicationistheculminationofadreamthatstretchesbacktoanerawhenthetermsatellitewasonlyanidea...
Three primary sources: documents of the Synod of Diamper (1599), Archbishop Menezes' travel narrative, Jornada (1603), and a recent article on clerical celibacy by George Nedungatt, are examined for issues of "othering" (a term coined by the postcolonial theorist, Gayatri Spivak). The ...
The meeting had an air of affability, given that the two leaders have been friends since they were vice presidents. Xi and Biden have a long-term personal friendship, having met 11 times in person over the years, according to Li Cheng, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at ...
medicine and philosophy at the university of Bologna where became the first professor of natural sciences in 1561. He is considered one of the foremost biologists of the Renaissance. In 1568 founded the Bologna City Gardens. He also coined the term geology and supported the idea of the inorganic...
Even so, environmentally induced variation is such that understanding the mechanisms underlying plasticity has moved to centre stage of current research. The term 'plasticity' refers to the changeable character of matter. It is used in physics for inanimate materials and in that field it is ...
In Section 1 of the article, I will outline certain features of the social realm that were "borrowed" – to use Latour's term – by technologies and then certain features of the technological realm that were reimported into the social realm. Then, in Section 2, I will reach for a few...
Both ice hokey and street hockey share the same carbon shell construction. The picture shown bellow illustrates a typical example. This is from TRUE Hockey, and they call their one-piece carbon shell a monocoque shell, leveraging a well-known term from the car industry. TRUE Hockey Skates, ...
During winter, you candrive your axe into the ice and climb frozen waterfallsatRjukan, considered one of the best places for ice climbing in Northern Europe! Geitgallien (photo) in Lofoten is also a popular mountain destination in winter for ice climbing, which requires an axe and crampons....
Global methylation studies of repetitive elements, followed by gene-specific promoter methylation analyses, have paved the way for the development of methylation platforms capable of epigenome-wide analyses. Exposed groups, when compared to controls, demonstrated a significant occurrence of global ...
“Very low carbohydrate-high protein diets also have beneficial effects on weight control and some cardiovascular risk factors (not LDL-cholesterol) in the short term, but are associated with increased mortality in long term cohort studies [156],” and “The lowest level of postprandial glycemia ...