Rising to the occasion

Rising to the Occasion: Lender's Bagels and the Frozen Food Revolution, 1927-1985

Clarence Birdseye developed advanced techniques for freezing food in the 1920s, but it took the pressures of World War II to create national presence for frozen food. Introduction of frozen orange juice concentrate in 1946 fueled rapid expansion in retail frozen food purchases; by the early 1950s a third of American households were buying them. It became a significant consumption item because i...

Yeast rises to the occasion

Genetic analyses of 15 species of yeast have shed new light on the divergence of gene regulation during evolution, with significant changes occurring after an event in which a whole genome was duplicated.

Rising to the challenge.

The Curse of Wealth – Middle Eastern Countries Need to Address the Rapidly Rising Burden of Diabetes

The energy boom of the last decade has led to rapidly increasing wealth in the Middle East, particularly in the oil and gas-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. This exceptional growth in prosperity has brought with it rapid changes in lifestyles that have resulted in a significant rise in chronic disease. In particular the number of people diagnosed with diabetes has increased dramat...

A Tribute to Professor H. G. Widdowson on the Occasion of his Visit to Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, 2018

There are such great names in language studies as Noam Chomsky, Lev S. Vygotsky, Howard Gardener and Michael Halliday who are widely accredited with having introduced new concepts in linguistics and neighboring disciplines and to whom we remain deeply indebted. In this article which has been written on the occasion of Professor Henry Widdowson's visit in April 2018 to Azarbaijan Shahid Madani U...