Bolshevik Millenarianism as Academic Blockbuster

Home-Brew the Blockbuster

Photo A. The six-meter Blockbuster. A lthough I enjoy ragchewing, DX-chasing, contesting, satellite work, and just about every conceivable aspect of amateur radio, the activity I enjoy most of all is home-brewing, especially home-brewing with a purpose. This article describes a reasonably ambitious effort which was precipitated by a very distinct purpose: I wanted to become more competitive in ...

The Case of Blockbuster Online Rental System

Word-of-Mouth (WOM) has been recognized as one of the most influential resources of information transmission especially for the experience goods. It has been shown that a higher volume of WOM has a positive effect on increasing the demand for a certain product. In addition to the WOM-sales interdependence, there is also dependence between sales and inventory. It is a well-studied concept that s...

Art History and the "Blockbuster" Exhibition

History as Blockbuster (The Influence of Art and Media Discourse on the Formation of Cultural Memory)

The decision of director Quentin Tarantino to kill Adolf Hitler in his film Inglorious Basterds has sparked criticism for alleged forgery of history. However, when studying the archives of the Jewish ghetto in Poland, Swedish writer Steve SemSendberg noted that fiction has started with the preservation of the first document. Had the Boston bomber not appeared on the cover of the Rolling Stone m...

1,4-Dihydropyridines: The Multiple Personalities of a Blockbuster Drug Family

More than 40 years after their introduction in therapy, 1,4-dihydropyridines (DHPs) are still amongst the most prescribed drugs in the world. Though they all share a similar mechanism of action blocking L-type voltage-gated Ca(2+) channels, DHPs differ in crucial pharmacological properties like tissue selectivity and cardiodepressant activity. This review examines how changes in the DHP structu...