Carex davisii habit and perigynium dissection
Carex davisii habitat, habit, and perigynium dissection to expose achene. For context, see: Carex davisii species page and Carex Interactive Identification Key.
Mathematics Under the Microscope
This book inevitably asks the question "How does the mathematical brain work?" The author tries to reflect on the explosive development of mathematical cognition, an emerging branch of neurophysiology which purports to locate structures and processes in the human brain responsible for mathematical thinking. PDF file.
Welcome to the Dzanga-Sangha
This fun Web site is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they take a close look at the interdependence of all living things in the Dzanga-Sangha. The site opens by introducing kids to BaAka, a young girl who will guide them through the site. In the Connect the Dots, an interactive game, kids learn how the people, animals, and plants depend on each other to thrive three habitats.
Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions with Evidence of Effectiveness
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed this Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions with Evidence of Effectiveness to respond to prevention service providers, planners, and others who request science-based interventions that work to prevent HIV transmission. All interventions selected for this Compendium came from behavioral or social studies that had both intervention and control/comparison groups and positive results for behavioral or health outcomes. We required des
Types of Compound Leaves
This illustrated guide is designed to help students recognize and learn the different types of compound leaves. The single Web page can be easily printed for use at field sites. Along with a short description, an illustration that identifies a leaflet and petiole is included for each type: pinnate (odd) twice pinnate pinnate (even) palmate.
Portrait of Berthold Auerbach ( 1812-1882 ).
Bust of the novelist and essayist, who devoted much time to the cause of emancipation.,Bust of the novelist and essayist, who devoted much time to the cause of emancipation.
The Bin Ladens
Steve Coll's new book 'The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and its Fortune' charts the rise of a family, and the story of the Saudi royal family they loyally served. Steve Coll is most recently the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Ghost Wars. He also won a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. He covered Afghanistan and the Washington Post's South Asia bureau chief between 1989 and 1992 and was the Washington Post's managing editor from 1998 to 2004. He is now staff wr
Biodiversité : comment gérer notre interaction avec l'écosystème
Cet entretien avec Françoise Burel, directrice de recherche au CNRS, traite de la biodiversité : des éléments qui la composent, de leurs interactions, des menaces qui pèsent sur elle et des actions qui peuvent être menées pour sa conservation. Françoise Burel appréhende la biodiversité comme ressource à l’échelle planétaire, mais elle s’intéresse aussi aux écosystèmes plus petits. Elle évoque notamment la place de l’homme dans le monde vivant, l’évolution et la dive
InfoShock: WSU Libraries Employee Newsletter (2006)
A semi-weekly news bulletin of Wichita State University Libraries activities published by the Libraries Operations Council.,Combined into monthly issues.
Title:Â wooden Â’stickÂ’ shabti
VADS Collection:Â Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Vi
Description:Â Wooden 'stick' shabti. Crudely carved in the form of a man with rough representations of head, arms and feet. Facial features are roughly carved with eyes and eyebrows painted on in black. There is an inscription in hieratic on the front and sides of the body in black ink.
Title:Â shabti of Ramesses
VADS Collection:Â Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual
Description:Â Dark steatite shabti, inscribed for the scribe Ramesses. The shabti is mummiform in shape with arms crossed over the chest and holding a hoe in each hand. He wears a striated tripartite wig, wesekh collar and bracelets on both wrists and there is a trapezoid bag/basket suspended by cords on the middle of his back. There is an incised inscription in one column of hieroglyphs down the back of the shabti and six rows of hieroglyphs bearing the shabti formula, Chapter 6 from the
Lunch Poems: Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee's collections of poems include The City in Which I Love You and Book of My Nights. In his poetry he explores a range of subjects, from his family's immigrant experiences to the haunting meditations of his most recent work.
"His poems are made from his life with his life; his poems are earned. He dares to be simple. And he is surely among the finest young poets alive," writes the American Poetry Review. He lives in Illinois.
Title:Â upper section of steatite shabti
VADS Collection:Â Artworld: Sainsbury Cent
Description:Â Upper body of a finely carved steatite shabti. The shabti has arms crossed over the chest with a broad hoe in the left hand, a narrow hoe in the right hand and a bracelet worn on the left wrist. He wears a beard, duplex wig and a wesekh collar over a pleated tunic with pleated sleeves. On the back of the shabti is a trapezoid bag/basket, slung over the left shoulder.
The lower part of the shabti is missing. There is a round hole bored into the underside of the piece, pres
Title:Â scribal palette
VADS Collection:Â Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art
Description:Â Scribe's palette made from wood.
The palette is long and rectangular and has a long groove hollowed out of the upper surface for holding rush pens. The pen section would have covered by a sliding lid, which is missing. There are two small circular wells carved at the other end of the palette; the top well is full of black pigment and the lower well shows traces of red pigment. The lower well is encircled by an incised shen-symbol and it can be assumed that the top well is
Title:Â Mandarin square
VADS Collection:Â Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art
Description:Â Mandarin square of a civilian grade 4 official of the Jiaqing reign.
The rank badge made from a delicately woven square of silk. In the centre of the square stands a white pheasant on a rock among swirling waves, looking towards the sun. Below the waves are diagonal stripes of alternating gold, copper and silver thread. The pheasant is surrounded by symbols of good luck (such as the endless knot, lotus, wheel of law, conch shell, flaming pearl, five bats, swastika, fish a
Analysis of GFRP composite tubes for vertical pump application
Composite anisotropic materials are rapidly gaining popularity in various applications. A global trend is towards an increases utilization of these advanced materials in a variety of structural applications. The pump and pipeline industry, and aerospace industry are the areas where use of fiber reinforced plastics have potential advantages over conventional materials. This thesis presents the results of an investigation to predict the behavior of filament wound glass fiber reinforced composite p
EU Foreign Policy after Lisbon: The EU's Influence in its Eastern Neighbourhood [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Hiski Haukkala, Dr Petr Kratochwil, Dr Nicu Popescu, Professor Stefan Wolff | This roundtable on 'EU Foreign Policy after Lisbon: The EU's Influence in its Eastern Neighbourhood' looks at the impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership on the domestic politics of its partner countries, and how this has changed since the Lisbon Treaty. Professor Hiski Haukkala (University of Tampere, Finland); Dr Petr Kratochwil (Institute of International Relatio
Lunch Poems: Michael S. Harper
This is a rare West Coast appearance for Michael Harper, who teaches at Brown University. He has published over ten books of poetry, including Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems from University of Illinois Press. His book Dear John, Dear Coltrane was nominated for the National Book Award, and was based partly on his friendship with the musician. Virginia Quarterly Review has written, "...he creates a language humming with emotion and ennobled by a deeply felt human dignity."
This
Title:Â Guan ware dish
VADS Collection:Â Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description:Â Guan ware. Dark brown stoneware dish with slightly rounded sides and foliated lip, standing on a short foot. The dish is covered with a thick ash-grey glaze with a clearly defined black crackle. The underside is also glazed and has five spur marks, produced during the firing process.
Description Source:Â Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archa
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