This article considers the ways in which male life course twentieth-century Britain can be reconstructed through individual personal pension files of British disabled ex-servicemen from First World War. The contain a range documentation, including military enlistment and discharge forms, medical records, correspondence pensioners, their families, other advocates. Close reading five these explor...

the seljuk branch of kerman was established around 433 a.h. by the attempts of ghavord ibn choghri beig who had been sent to conquer kerman by the order of toghrol beig. he could establish a new government in the conquered land, the one which was inherited in his family up to 583 a.h. the study of this part of seljuk reign makes it clear that although there have been some discussions regarding ...

This article argues that space is one of the formative elements in the construction of Russianness and explores how the occupation of the territory shaped the development of the country. Drawing on examples, I argue that 1. Russia can be presented as a conglomerate of marginalities – a centre and a periphery in itself. 2. Russian peripheries are not just plural, but also orientated towards diff...

he increased use of sound systems comprising more than two channels has given a vast number of possibilities for producers, editors and consumers to create and/or alter the sound image finally reproduced at the consumer's end of the chain. It is empirically and experimentally known that this sound image is able to give the listener an improved feeling of presence and more directional cues. It i...

Natal dispersal behavior can vary considerably among individuals, but the causes of intraspecific plasticity in dispersal are poorly understood. We tested six hypotheses about social and environmental conditions that might influence natal dispersal of males in the cooperatively breeding Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis). Further, we examined whether variation in dispersal behavior is ...

Go is an ancient oriental game whose complexity has defeated attempts to automate it. We suggest using probability in a Bayesian sense to model the uncertainty arising from the vast complexity of the game tree. We present a simple conditional Markov random field model for predicting the pointwise territory outcome of a game. The topology of the model reflects the spatial structure of the Go boa...