Sir Richard Owen, a Lancastrian, was a prominent biologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, palaeontologist and known for coining the term dinosaur. His expertise in anatomical dissection proved to be one of his biggest assets and aided his career progression at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Zoological Society. Owen's apprenticeship in Lancaster helped him to gain expertise in anatomy...

The problem of computing the exact value of ∑ 1/n is so classical (dating back to 1644) that it even has a name of its own: the Basel problem. The city of Basel was the hometown both of the famous brothers Jakob and Johann Bernoulli, who made serious but unsuccessful attempts to solve the problem, and to the prodigious mathematician Leonhard Euler, who found the first solution in 1735, see [3]....

The travelling salesman problem is to find a shortest path from the travelling salesman’s hometown, make the round of all the towns in the set, and finally go back home. This paper investigates the travelling salesman problem with fuzzy random travelling time. Three concepts are proposed: expected shortest path, (α, β)-path and chance shortest path according to different optimal desire. Corresp...

A Web survey of 1,715 college students was conducted to examine Facebook Groups users' gratifications and the relationship between users' gratifications and their political and civic participation offline. A factor analysis revealed four primary needs for participating in groups within Facebook: socializing, entertainment, self-status seeking, and information. These gratifications vary dependin...

This study aims at the deconstructive analysis of religious, cultural and lingual stereotypes represented through Americans Muslims in Nafisa Haji’s The Sweetness Tears. Both have been sharing a binary victims victimizers since incident 9/11. are scrutinized deported to their hometown on charge being ‘terrorists’ by Americans. Firstly, illustrates that deconstructing these stereotypes, new inti...

INTRODUCTION The regionally based James Cook University (JCU) College of Medicine and Dentistry aims to meet its mission to address the health needs of the region by using a selection policy favouring rural origin applicants and providing students with early and repeated exposure to rural experiences during training. This study seeks to determine if the JCU medical school's policy of preferenti...

When considering Hometown Tax Donation in the context of regional revitalization or development, some question whether it is any different from conventional subsidies grants. For instance, a keyword search for “regional revitalization, subsidy” will result many hits on available to municipalities; however, such and grants can be obtained as long municipalities deftly “compose” proposals submit ...

Objective This article identifies mechanisms through which social class background shapes the marital outcomes of college-going white American women. Background Scholars are interested in relative influences ascriptive and achieved characteristics on mate selection. Research indicates that continues to influence marriage patterns college-educated Americans but does not identify this occurs. Met...