Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem about East and West begins with the words, “Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” Even today, as we live in a globalised world where rapid development have led the East and West to be highly interconnected and dependent on one another, there is a sense that East and West do not understanding each other. There have been rising tensions ...

The importance of literary travel writing can be partly explained by the qualities it shares with imaginative literature featuring the concepts of Romanticism. Writers from Twain and Steinbeck to Thoreau and Wordsworth have depicted the human bent towards adventure and the unknown and, especially in rapidly developing societies, the urge to return to simplicity and the core values of life and t...

In her paper, "Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and U.S. Imperialism," Jennifer A. O'Neill argues that while it Twain's text is commonly viewed as an attack on monarchy and the Catholic church, one of the book's primary focuses is U.S. imperialism. In the scholarship of Twain's text some have acknowledged the text as a discussion of colonialism, most tend to see it as a...

In the nineteenth century, cholera made a deep impression on collective memory of entire generations. As human-medical borderline experience, it was scientific driving force, political destabilizing factor, and challenge to poetics. At interface literary studies medical history by using nineteenth-century texts from North American, British, German authors as examples, this transnational study s...

The main objective of the joint Nansen Legacy and A-TWAIN/SIOS-InfraNor mooring service cruise was recovery deployment projects’ moorings in Barents Sea north Svalbard. Additionally, CTD stations with water sampling for both projects, a Seaglider Legacy, recoveries deployments partner projects were planned depending on sea ice conditions time available.

improve EMR note quality. In the absence of evidence, only expert opinion remains. It is my opinion as a medical educator, experienced if not expert, that training has minimal lasting impact. Mark Twain wrote, “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” With EMR features such as copy-and-paste and one-click data import, it takes less time and effort to write lon...

Remotely sensed estimates of water quality parameters would facilitate efforts in spatial and temporal monitoring. In this study we collected hyperspectral water reflectance data with airborne and ground-based sensing systems for multiple arms of Mark Twain Lake, a large manmade reservoir in northeast Missouri. Water samples were also collected and analyzed in the laboratory for chlorophyll, nu...

In the prologue to his new book [1] , Canadian scientist Jacob Van Dyk reports following incident from own life