Introduction Exercise Himalayan Venture VI was the Army Mountaineering Association Expedition to Mount Api (23,390 ft), West Nepal in the Spring of 1980_ The expedition consisted of a party of 12 British servicemen accompanied by seven Nepalis travelling from Kathmandu by road through Nepal and India for one week to a roadhead at Dandeldhura, and then on foot through Far West Nepal for two week...

This little handbook will be found very useful by the many medical practitioners in India who are called upon from time to time to advise patients returning to the British Isles as to the selection of where to live or where to go for treatment; whilst it will also attract those who are making plans for a pending retirement from service. It is fully illustrated and the information given is excee...

Teaching a Jacobean British text such as The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster to the Bhutanese students was real challenge deals with world class and gender hierarchy. Living in Buddhist country, where even killing animals for food is prohibited Gross National Happiness prioritized, psychological trauma violent gory events portrayed play appalled students. could not imagine female subjugation, ...

due to the british hegemony of iran in both pre- and post-constitutional revolutionary periods (1906-1911), the iranian legal system was expected to be influenced by british common law following the establishment of the modern government after the revolution. but it did not happen for various legal and non-legal reasons. a major legal reason could be iranians’ long history of acquaintance with ...

This paper is concerned with the analysis of the spoken language of teenagers, taken from a newly developed specialised corpus the British and Taiwanese Teenage Intercultural Communication Corpus (BATTICC). More specifically, the study employs a discourse analytical approach to examine vague language in an intercultural context among a group of British and Taiwanese adolescents, paying particul...

Biology and WikiProject Computational Biology: celebrating 10 years of collaboration towards open access Kieran O’Neill*, Vivek Rai and Alastair M. Kilpatrick Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technolo...

Inequitable land access and disputes are commonly mentioned as major causes of instability in the Bodoland region. Land problems frequently invoked a more potent debating tactic conflict. For tribals region, reform, ownership, registry, legal pluralism, boundary difficulties, landlessness, insecure usage, other associated issues all concerns. Major legislation has failed to significantly reduce...

Z. H. Wang, P. H. Diamond, Ö. D. Gürcan, X. Garbet, and X. G. Wang School of Physics and Optoelectronic Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China Department of Physics and Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0424, USA WCI Center for Fusion Theory, National Fusion Research Institute, Gwahangno 113, ...

Bengal Medical Service. ( Continued from page 209.) People.?The Kashmiris are a remarkably handsome and physically robust race. Their physique, character form a very marked contrast to the rest of the races of British India. Kashmiris proper may be divided into Mahomedans and the " Pundits," who are the Hindu remainder, who have escaped conversion into Mahomedanism. They are all Brahmans. The M...

This study examines the ideological content of six internationally-used ELT textbooks, three British and three American. Applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis (CDA), three aspects of the conversations in the textbooks, i.e. content, relations, and positions were examined. Results suggest that in terms of content, British textbooks tend to entertain the students while...