At the Post-Cold War Era, western cultural hegemony came under question, and was replaced by cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is likely to result in cultural relativism, and might, as Huntington said, cause competition and clash among all civilizations, which will in turn lead to a global cultural crisis. Cultural crisis in China has changed with the period of time, and has not broken awa...

one of the fields of humanities which can interact withliterature, is psychoanalysis which takes literature to explain its theories,especially fantastic works because of their fluctuation between reality andillusions. the synchronic flourishing of the fantastic and psychoanalysis andtheir common concepts, increases the richness of  analysis. maupassant, the french writerrenowne for his fantasti...

in first stage it must notice the identity cri sis as pathological approach to identity and if pathogenesis. factor s would be distinguished, it will be assumed as basis for remedy the problems. in the record of iran historical identity we must study a period of 170 years ago. iranian approaches to the western civilization based on two different methods: a)reject attitude. and b)terrified attit...

This paper presents an alternative view of the Information Systems identity crisis described recently by Benbasat and Zmud (2003). We agree with many of their observations, but we are concerned with their prescription for IS research. We critique their discussion of errors of inclusion and exclusion in IS research and highlight the potential misinterpretations that are possible from a literal R...

Oncolytic viruses (OV) are replicating viral therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and have been in laboratory development for about twenty years. Recently, the FDA approved Imlygic, a herpes virus based therapeutic for the treatment of melanoma and thus OVs have entered a new era where they are a weapon in the armament of the oncologist. OVs are unique therapeutics with multiple mechanisms ...

Grid is an e-Science project assisting life scientists to build workflows that gather and co-ordinate data from distributed, autonomous, replicated and heterogeneous resources. The provenance logs of workflow executions are recorded as RDF graphs. The log of one workflow run is used to trace the history of its execution process; however, by aggregating provenance logs of workflow reruns, or run...

The study of neurogenesis in the adult brain is among the most exciting and fastest moving areas of neuroscience today. In contrast to the high rate of neurogenesis in some vertebrates (Nottebohm, 2002), unambiguous evidence for new neurons in normal adult mammals ranging from rodents to primates has been confined to the dentate gyrus and olfactory bulb (Lois and AlvarezBuylla, 1964; Kaplan and...

New work shows the anillin-related protein Mid1 does not position the cytokinetic ring in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces japonicus, unlike its role in S. pombe. Further analysis suggests the conserved function of Mid1-like anillin proteins may be in scaffolding, not positioning, the cytokinetic ring.

Networked applications traditionally derive their identity from the identity of the host on which they run. The default application identity acquired from the host results in subtle and substantial problems related to application deployment, discovery and access, especially for modern distributed applications. A number of mechanisms and workarounds, often quite elaborate, are used to address th...

Biogeography has had an unusually protracted identity crisis (e.g. Brown & Lomolino, 2000; Donoghue & Moore, 2003), although the discipline took on a relatively ‘modern’ look well over a century ago – the thoroughly ‘modern’ observations of Alfred Russel Wallace have been discussed elsewhere (Funk, 2004), and Joseph Dalton Hooker’s views about floristic histories across lands of the southern he...