it was not until the twentieth century, and especially the 1980s, that dutch Gothic fiction began to flourish. This article gives an overview of the history of the Gothic in dutch literature, and discusses the explanations given for the absence of a dutch Gothic tradition. it then examines six Gothic novels from the 1980s in more depth to determine what kind of “cultural work” the Gothic does i...

Epidemiology has changed remarkably during its growth in the past quarter century. One of those changes has been the ever-increasing specialization among its practitioners. In this commentary, the author explores the degree to which this phenomenon has shaped the field. A partial explanation for this trend is found in the decline in the availability of training funds not focused on specific dis...

Context-awareness has been identified as a key characteristic for pervasive computing systems. As a variety of context-aware environments begin to flourish, pervasive applications shall have to interact different environments well. In this paper we propose extensions to the Strathclyde Context Infrastructure that gives context-aware applications the potential to adapt to unfamiliar environments...

Executive Summary Educating undergraduate students to be capable IT professionals poses several significant problems. Firstly, there is the question of what knowledge should be taught in a subject where new areas of interest can appear, flourish and then largely disappear within a few years. Secondly there is the question of how the subject should be taught to try to ensure that the students no...

Communication infrastructures play a vital role in modern society. Advances in the range of mobile network service offerings, performance, quality of service, security, and ubiquity continue to flourish, despite global economy fluctuations. Access to experimental wireless infrastructures for real-life applications by specific user communities benefits all of the stakeholders involved: the end u...

In agriculture, there is an urgent need for alternate ecofriendly products to control plant diseases. These alternate products must possess preferable characteristics such as new modes of action, cost effectiveness, biodegradability, and target specificity. In the current scenario, studies on macrofungi have been an area of importance for scientists. Macrofungi grow prolifically and are found i...

pure utility slackens. Art develops. Attractions other than those of eating and mating come into the lives of men and women. There is a fall in the birth rate, but there is a greater fall in the death rate, brought about by sanitation and medical relief. The increase in the population is considerable. Phase IV.?The standard of living continues to rise and art to flourish. The birth and death ra...

The term dark personalities refers to a set of socially aversive traits in the subclinical range. Not extreme enough to invite clinical or forensic attention, they can get along (even flourish) in everyday work settings, scholastic settings, and the broader community. Along with my research group, I have studied a constellation of these personalities— Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, ...

Q&A sites continue to flourish as a large number of users rely on them as useful substitutes for incomplete or missing search results. In this paper, we present our experience with developing Confucius, a Google Q&A service launched in 21 countries and four languages by the end of 2009. Confucius employs six data mining subroutines to harness synergy between web search and social networks. We p...