A consideration of how the dynamics surrounding Manila's Black Nazarene express crucial themes in Filipino psyche. The article specifically addresses importance "felt-experience" (pagdama) devotion to as well its connections indigenous religion.

In this paper, the latest developments in the provision of streaming multimedia over the internet are discussed. We emphasize on the newly appearing HTTP adaptive streaming approach that threatens the reign of RTSP, as regards the support of real time media streaming, and we examine the possible uses of each of the two protocols with respect to the different transmission needs, as these are see...

The centennial celebration of the discovery of X rays was last year, and the first radiograms of the skull were made one hundred years ago (1). Thus, it is appropriate to remember Arthur Schüller, who was “without any shadow of doubt the father of neuroradiology” (2). His biography can be considered an example of the fate of many scientists in our century. Arthur Schüller was born in Brünn (now...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E ground. We agree with F.G. Harold’s concept of “optimal heterophily”1 and use the term software engineering to include information technology. Y2K presented a formidable (albeit welldefined) challenge: find the date problems and fix them (see our “Congratulations” in the accompanying sidebar). Post-Y2K presents a more formidable challenge: a...

Mainstream Information Technology professionals have misunderstood the Pick environment for many years. The Pick environment has been conceived, designed and built with business solutions as its key driver. At its heyday there were over 3,000 business applications available across a very wide range of hardware platforms supporting from 1 to thousands of real time users. The tentative economic r...

Award Number: W81XWH-08-1-0108 TITLE: The role of eIF4E activity in breast cancer PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Thomas A Hughes CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9-0000 REPORT DATE: August 2010 TYPE OF REPORT: Annual PREPARED FOR: U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702-5012 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT:  Approved for public release; distribution ...

A B S T R ACT. In his celebrated 1987 essay, ‘The monarchical republic of Queen Elizabeth I ’, Patrick Collinson wrote that ‘Elizabethan England was a republic which also happened to be a monarchy : or vice versa. ’ Since then, the idea of an Elizabethan ‘monarchical republic ’ has been tested, challenged, and developed, with precedents found in Henry VIII’s and Edward VI’s reigns. Mary I’s rei...