The aim of this study is to analyze the kinds protagonist’s loyalty in Sidney Sheldon’s novel Tell Me Your Dreams. theory applied research one proposed by Fletcher, which it stated that emerges when someone has a feeling protect something.The data are taken from using descriptive analysis method. method used qualitative. results show there two found novel. They his mother and friend. Loyalty or...

This paper analyzes the determinants of successful participation of candidates on the well known television quiz show “WhoWants to Be a Millionaire?”. Our study includes a survey of 660 contestants who participated in the German version of the show between 1999 and 2007. We are particularly interested in two hypotheses. The first hypothesis refers to the assumed advantage of social capital. Con...

A friend of mine in the UK Paddy Walsh has passed on to me your recent ruminations on “How genre theory saved the world”. I note that Paddy is a former subject English teacher and SNS English consultant, and familiar with work done using genre theory in the UK. As I was one of the genre theorists with whom you exchanged articles in English in Australia a good many years ago, I thought I might r...

ABSTRACT During 2001 to 2003, the transmission biology of Phytophthora ramorum, the causal agent of sudden oak death, was studied in mixedevergreen forest, a common forest type in northern, coastal California. Investigation of the sources of spore production focused on coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) and bay laurel (Umbellularia californica), dominant hosts that comprised 39.7 and 46.2% of t...

BACKGROUND In Brazil, about two million people living in rural semiarid regions were benefited with the construction of rainwater cement cisterns, as an initiative from the program "One Million Cisterns" (P1MC). Nevertheless, few epidemiological studies have been conducted to assess health risks or protection effects associated with consumption of this water source. The aim of this study was to...

The first long-term concurrent measurements of trichloroacetic acid (TCA) in rainwater, in cloudwater, and in air (both gas and particle phase) are reported. Measurements were made weekly between June 1998 and April 2000 at a rural forested upland site in SE Scotland. Rainwater TCA concentration did not differ significantly between two elevations (602 and 275 m asl), with precipitation-weighted...

A friendship system is introduced for modular static verification of object invariants. It extends a previous methodology, based on ownership hierarchy encoded in auxiliary state, to allow for state dependence across ownership boundaries. Friendship describes a formal protocol for a granting class to grant a friend class permission to express its invariant over fields in the granting class. The...