Abstract Biographical research approaches have been relevant for the analysis of transitions in life course a long time. From beginning social science-based (auto-)biographical narratives, “biography” as concept was oriented towards understanding relationship between development individual identity against background collective phenomena well their relevance histories. But biographical narratio...

Unlike most of the world's languages, Korean distinguishes three types of voiceless stops, namely lenis, fortis, and aspirated stops. All occur at three places of articulation. In previous work, acoustic measurements are mostly collapsed over the three places of articulation. This study therefore provides acoustic measurements of Korean lenis, fortis, and aspirated stops at all three places of ...

The total hip arthroplasty using metal on metal articulation with stainless steel was first introduced in 1938 by Wiles and the modification of this articulation with cobalt-chrome has been performed by many other orthopedic surgeons. After the McKee’s report on the poor result as high as 50% of failure rate during 15 years follow-up in 1972, the use of metal on metal articulation was decreased...