Douglas Northrop, Veiled Empire

Northrop Frye's Bible

Words With Power was published in 1990; it is the last of forty books of literary criticism written by its author, Northrop Frye, who died in January 1992 at the age of 78. A recent survey of 950 journals reveals that he remains the eighth most frequently cited author in the arts and humanities, among a company that includes Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Freud. A bibliography of his work and comm...

John Howard Northrop

On Ju ly 5, 1981, John Howard Northrop will reach the venerable age of four score and ten. He is active and well for a man of his age but a bit unhappy that his diminished eyesight makes him no longer the skeet supermarksman he once was. The Editors of The Journal of General Physiology and some of Dr. Northrop's friends wish to use this occasion to express their grati tude for his 62-year-long ...

Northrop Grumman Systems

Modification of the Northrop-kunitz Microcataphoresis Cell

A modification of the Northrop-Kunitz microcataphoresis cell is described. Although the theory of von Smoluchowski relating to such systems is in general followed, certain deviations may be encountered which are easily avoided.

Discovering Veiled Unsatisfiable Xpath Queries

The satisfiability problem of queries is an important determinant in query optimization. The application of a satisfiability test can avoid the submission and the unnecessary evaluation of unsatisfiable queries, and thus save processing time and query costs. If an XPath query does not conform to constraints in a given schema, or constraints from the query itself are inconsistent with each other...