Awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021, Gurnah’s Gravel Heart can be considered as a bildungsroman, which delineates repercussions of colonialism on individuals once colonized societies. It tells story growing young boy who both psychologically and geographically becomes estranged from his self hometown due to impacts outcomes that colonial powers have left country. Through narrating s...

The purpose of this paper is to show the results of some work at the IRC in Materials for High Performance Applications at the University of Birmingham into the effect of processing and process parameters on the microstructure, macrostructure and chemistry of 100 mm diameter single plasma-melted ingots of a gamma-based titanium aluminide (Ti-48at%Al-2at%Mn-2at%Nb). The microstructure of the aqm...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the influence of heart disease on clinical characteristics, quality of life, use of health resources, and costs of patients with COPD followed at primary care settings under common clinical practice conditions. METHODS Epidemiologic, observational, and descriptive study (EPIDEPOC study). Patients > or = 40 years of age with stable COPD attending primary care settings we...

Enhanced soil element concentrations may serve as indicators not only of modern pollution, but also of former historic and/or pre-historic human activity. However, there is little consensus over the most appropriate means of extraction for identifying chemical signatures of modern and archaeological pollution. This study addressed this question by using a 5-step sequential extraction to examine...

We conducted three experiments to determine the effects of the callipyge phenotype on the tenderness of several major lamb muscles and to determine the effect of method of cookery on the tenderness of callipyge lamb at 7 d postmortem. In Exp. 1, chops from normal (n = 23) and callipyge (n = 16) carcasses were open-hearth-broiled. Warner-Bratzler shear force values of longissimus, gluteus medius...