increasingly, aq qoyunlu rule and ottoman empire were inclined to contradict in the half of 9th/15th century. access to central anatolia for aq qoyunlu was a pivotal enterprise by which could develop its commercial ties. in contrast, ottomans tried to counteract the aq qoyunlu strives and thwarted its close relation with venice since ottomans regarded the latter as an archenemy in europe. forem...

The shock and threat of the Sydney siege on Monday 15 December 20141 have provoked large-scale responses — to the emergency, its aftermath and the implications it may have for the future. The strong response by police, counterterrorism agencies and other experts and the leadership shown by civic agencies through the hours of uncertainty were watched by the world. There was powerful engagement, ...

and dependence, at least in in vivo systems. The recent cloning of these receptors has enabled more penetrating Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine analyses (Mansour et al., 1995), which could yet reveal alterations related to opiate addiction. For example, ex-New Haven, Connecticut 06508 posure to agonist in vitro elicits receptor desensitization and down-regu...

name from the village of his birth, was considered second only to Michelangelo among his 16th century peers. In Italy, Pontormo was among the first exponents of Mannerism, a style of painting that stressed artifice over realism. The National Gallery of Art offers this view: “Mannerism’s artificiality—its bizarre, sometimes acid color, its illogical compression of space, the elongated proportion...