Background: Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is mainly cultivated in tropical areas such as South India. It is known as a popular spice in all over the world. Although some studies have been carried out to determine the ingredients of black pepper Essential Oil (EO) cultivated in various regions of the world, but there is little data about some physicochemical characteristics of EO of black pepper c...

At the end of Sigrid Undset’s medieval trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter (1920–1922), heroine encounters bubonic plague that so violently hit Europe in mid-fourteenth century. The aim this paper is to explore connections between 20th century novel and European tradition literature from broader perspective environmental history. Furthermore, it discusses historical novel’s effect as a distant mirror...

The purpose of this study is to analyse U.S.S.R. representations in Marvel’s film Black Widow (Feige & Shortland, 2021). This object has been chosen because it provides us with a U.S.A. perspective upon Soviet protagonist – who here given chance telling ‘her’ story. More specifically, even though Natasha Romanoff’s (the Widow) narrative the centre story, analytical focus on another characte...

To prevent serious electromagnetic interference, a single-layer and double layer wave-absorbing coating employing complex absorbents composed of carbon black with epoxy resin as matrix was prepared. The morphologies of carbon black /epoxy composites were characterized by scanning electron microscope  and atomic force microscope, respectively. The carbon black  particles exhibit obvious polyarom...

Reports suggest that hypertension and death due to hypertensive disease are commoner among black than among white people. One hundred and thirty-five black patients attending hypertension clinics at three English hospitals were compared with age-, sex-, and clinicmatched white patients. The black women had higher blood pressures and weighed more than the white women, but there were no differenc...

one of the largest and most mysterious events of life is death, which has continued to preoccupy the mind of man. in cotemporary literature, many authors are trying to escape death.  but the approach of eric emmanuel schmitt, contemporary french writer, given the large number of his works with this theme, seems to be specific. in his work, death does not have  a horrible face. through belief in...