Prominent figures such as Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and Derek Walcott emerged as leading representatives in Commonwealth literature, challenging colonial literature and exploring themes of identity, cultural hybridity, and the impact of colonialism. These writers, along with many othe...
In the later nineteenth century, especially in France, prehistorians carried the same basic approach much further, dividing up the Stone Age into a whole succession of phases, or cultures, defined by distinctive tool types. In this work, artifact classification was conceived above all as an aid...
Opiate receptors. In turtles the delta opiate receptor is expressed more densely in the pallial thickening than surrounding areas (figures 2 and 4ofXia and Haddad, 2001). In pigeons the delta and kappa opiate receptors are more abundant in the hyperstriatum ventrale relative to the neostriatum,...
It stresses that the hidden welfare state strongly influences social policy and that only looking at the direct provision of welfare goods may be misleading when making comparisons between countries. The article presents new figures on tax expenditure in relation to social policy and does so in a ...
a Soviet cosmonaut, was the first man in space in 1961. The United States accomplished the major success of the Space Race with the moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969. In the 1970s, the two countries began to work together to develop space stations, as through the Apollo-Soyuz joint miss...
Few products of the imagination have had the endurance of the mythological figures of the classical Mediterranean world. Whether as archetypes, allegorical figures, proxies for natural forces, or just examples of behavior not to emulate, the gods, heroes, and anti-heroes of the Greek world have ...
The Uptime Institute's 2012 Data Center Industry Survey reports a wide range of PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) figures from its 1,100 respondents. Only six percent of respondents claim a PUE of less than 1.3. Image: Uptime Institute
Historical figures Historic Celebrities Hong Jun, Sai Jinhua Speaking of Pingjiang Road, it is easy to associate 2 celebrities living at 27 Xuanqiao Alley, Pingjiang Road. Hong Jun, top scholar in the seventh year of Emperor Tongzhi, gradually promoted from Imperial Academy composer to senior vice...
may expose previously hidden immunogenic epitopes to the immune system, making the mutant virus now vulnerable to inactivation by an extensiveneutralizing antibody(Nab) response (Balzarini, 2005). Although this concept has yet to be proven for CBP, it may represent an attractive property of CBP to...
or recognition of suspects, dangerous individuals and public enemies by Police, FBI and other safety organizations; and maxillofacialsurgery, for studying the faces which surgeons have to deal with. As can be imagined, automatization is necessary. In particular, a facial recognition system is a comp...