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The Construction of the “ Self ” in Astrophil and Stella

In the late 16th century, Sir Philip Sidney produced the first influential English sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, inspired by his life at the Elizabethan court. Relative to his contemporaries Shakespeare and Spenser, Sidney’s work has attracted little scholarly attention in recent years, a curious phenomenon in light of the importance accorded his Defense of Poesy and given the excellen...

Separability and the stella octangula

A geometrical picture of separability of 2× 2 composite quantum systems, showing the region of separable density matrices in the space of hermitian matrices, is given. It rests on the criterion of separability given by Peres [1], and it is an extension of the “Horodecki diagram” [2] and the “stella octangula” described by Aravind [3]. An illustration of which composite quantum states that are s...

CHAPTER 7 Stella

THE CASE OF PROFESSIONALS IN SINGAPORE Stella

The Arias-Stella reaction: facts and fancies four decades after.

Since its first description more than four decades ago, the atypical endometrial change associated with chorionic tissue effect has been widely confirmed in the literature. However, errors and inaccuracies in text books and other publications often occur. This review clarifies some of these misconceptions and presents a summary of new data on the histologic and immunohistochemical characteristi...