At the successful staging of 20th Century Chinese Art organized by Christie’s, held in Hong Kong in November 2005, an auction record was set for a work by deceased artist Pan Yuliang (潘玉良, 1895-1977).1 Previously estimated to be between HK$33.5 million (approximately US$384,600-448,700) in value before the sale, the partially nude self-portrait of Pan fetched an impressive HK$9.64 million inste...

Comparison of time-frequency responses and the event-related potential to auditory speech stimuli 2 in human cortex 3 4 5 Erik Edwards*, Maryam Soltani*, Won Kim, Sarang S. Dalal, Srikantan S. Nagarajan, Mitchel S. 6 Berger, Robert T. Knight 7 8 Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 9 California, USA 10 Department of Radiology & Bio...

The Paris Commune was the apotheosis of what unfolded in 1848 European Revolutions, first time working class actually took political power, although briefly. Frederick Douglass covered events closely his newspaper, New National Era. Douglass’s views on Commune, as yet unexplored detail by scholars, illuminate relationship to democratic and social movements both abroad United States. This essay ...

The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention. A new “we” is coming of age in the new age of connectivity and communication with a new outlook toward responsibility and rights at individual and collective l...

The starred for-adverbial in (1a) reflects standard judgments: in the presence of a DP direct object like a cake—which following terminology by Borer (2005) is referred to here as a Q(uantity)-DP— with an incremental theme verb like eat, the VP is telic. In contrast, in (1b), with a mass noun direct object like cake—referred to here as a non-Q-DP—the VP is atelic. Although these are the pattern...

This study presents new data on pitch accent alignment in Sardinian, a Romance language spoken in Italy. We propose that what has been described as “stress shift” in encliticization processes is not a change in the word level stress, but variation in the association of the pitch accent. Our claim is that word level stress remains in situ, and the falling tune which our data exhibit can be inter...

Click-chemistry is an approach based on cycloaddition reactions which has been successfully used as a chemical approach for complex organic molecules and which has recently starred in a boom in the world of protein chemistry. The advantage of the use of this technique in protein chemistry is based on a very high and efficient chemoselectivity, which usually requires simple or no purification an...