The advanced characteristics of synchrotron light has led in recent years to the development of a series of new experimental techniques to investigate chemical and physical properties on a microscopic scale. Although originally developed for materials science and biomedical research, such techniques find increasing applications in other domains - and could be quite useful for the study and cons...

The author elaborates his proposition concerning the distinction of culturalhistorical and political identity by differentiating cultural-historical majorities and minorities from political winners and losers. He points out to a democratic paradox according to which a state is governed by political minorities of winners and not by political majorities of losers. In multi-ethnic societies, holds...

The concept of marking was discovered in phonology by Trubetzkoy and generalized to morphology and grammar by Jakobson. In a fundamental application to anthropology, Greenberg integrated a generalized concept of marking into a cognitivelinguistic theory of kinship universals. Greenberg’s theory is important for three reasons: (1) it leads to the discovery and explanation of cross-cultural unive...

In this paper, we present the Black blogosphere’s discussion of the Jena 6 case to uncover how ethnic identity is performed discursively to promote social activism. Historically, African Americans have used radio for communication about critical issues, such as political elections, health care, education, economic development and civil rights. More recently with the growing popularity of blogs ...

Geomorphosites or special geomorphologic sites are new concepts which have entered tourism literature with anemphasis on special sites. Basically, the goal for discussing such concepts is to identify landforms with specialimportance on understanding the geomorphologic structure of a region and their scientific, ecological, cultural,aesthetic, and economical values. Generally, they are used for ...

geomorphosites or special geomorphologic sites are new concepts which have entered tourism literature with anemphasis on special sites. basically, the goal for discussing such concepts is to identify landforms with specialimportance on understanding the geomorphologic structure of a region and their scientific, ecological, cultural,aesthetic, and economical values. generally, they are used for ...