Explores the life of stone, following its matter-energy as it confounds the boundary between organic and inorganic, art and nature, human and mineral. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (2010) 1, 56–63 doi:10.1057/pmed.2009.1; published online 9 February 2010 Reality is a single matter-energy undergoing phase transitions of various kinds y Rocks and winds, germs and words, are...

Introduction and Approach Writers of stories for both print and screen have a deeply ingrained tendency to construct their stories in ways geared toward experiencing the finished work in a linear fashion. With the exception of some videodisc experiments and a few recent video game applications, stories for the screen are usually written, produced, assembled and viewed in and for the linear form...

Research frameworks are being developed that involve very young children in the process of development of future technologies. Children, their teachers and parents from schools in Israel and Denmark are coming together with researchers, educationalists, psychologists, designers and technologists to develop a wearable technology for educational usethe KidsCam. This example of a hyper-camera will...

nanocomposites based on polyamide 6/polypropylene  )pa6/pp 67/33) blend containing 2.5 to 10 phr of nano-caco3  and 5 phr of maleated polypropylene )pp-g-mah) as compatibilizer were prepared by melt compounding followed by injection molding. the mechanical properties, water absorption, as well as shrinkage behavior were characterized and the morphology was studied using scanning electron micros...

background: many in vitro studies suggested that choline incorporation into many types of tumors is related to cell proliferation. whether in vivo choline incorporation is related also to cell proliferation or not was my question. therefore, the aim of this pilot study was to investigate the relationship of in vivo [methyl- 14c]-choline incorporation and in vivo [methyl-3h]- thymidine incorpora...

The features of the composition of small prose by L. Ulitskaya (on the example of the stories "Bronka", "Happy", "Poor Relatives") are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the features of picturing time in stories, to the past which is sometimes more important for understanding the motives and characters of L. Ulitskaya’s heroes than the present and even...

The authors investigated the relationship between the acquisition of cultural life scripts and the degree of coherence in children's and adolescents' life stories. Three groups of Danish school children aged 9 to 15 years participated. In 3 sessions, they wrote down a recently experienced single autobiographical event, their life story, and their cultural life script. Single-event and life stor...

One of the most important aspects of analyzing literary texts is the consideration of the reflection of the author's thoughts, wishes, griefs and regrets as defense mechanisms. In reviewing the reflection of an author's unconscious in his or her work, psychoanalytic or psychological criticism is often used, in which the critic tries to reveal the influence of the author's mental constraints on ...

according to the story of dhul qarnayn and the sun – which is recounted in verses 86 and 90 of sūrat al-kahf – dhul qarnayn reaches the place where the sun sets and finds out that the sun sets in a hot or muddy spring. analyzing this qur’ānic report, the learned scholars have developed three major approaches. first, considering the story of dhul qarnayn as real and accepting the surface meaning...