The Prolific South African novelist, Nadine Gordimer’s Pickup (2001) and the promising Afghan writer, Khaled Hosseini’s Kite Runner (2003) belong to New Literatures in English. main characters these two novels undertake their journey from native place foreign country pursuit of happiness, place, prosperity self-realization. This research paper attempts make a comparison between terms undertaken...

AMIR DEMBO 1 Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4065, USA email: [email protected] QI-MAN SHAO 2 Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China; Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA; Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027...

The primary objective of the paper is to revisit the statistical foundations of panel data modeling with a view to render their probabilistic assumptions testable vis-a-vis the data. This involves (a) recasting the error assumptions in terms of the probabilistic structure of the observable processes underlying the data, (b) specifying panel data models in terms of a complete and internally cons...

This study discusses the bereavement of Amir, main character The Kite Runner, and analyzes defense mechanisms projected toward bereavement. uses a psychological approach to identify analyze Amir�s mechanisms. qualitative descriptive nature this allows data be presented in form texts or descriptions. Data were mined from novel through character�s feelings, thoughts, dialogues. analysis shows tha...

Gene silencing by RNA interference is a particularly important tool in the study of gene function in polyploid cereal species for which the collections of natural or induced mutants are very limited. Previously we have been testing small interfering RNA-based approach of gene silencing in wheat and triticale. In this research, artificial microRNAs (amiRs) were studied in the same species and th...