Study in Contrasts

Vaccines: a study in contrasts.

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lamiyyat al-'arab’s binary contrasts: a study in anthropology

life is full of harmony and contrast and combining contrasting forms is a large part of human thinking. everything in the universe tends to have a contrasting opposite. many researchers have studied these contrasts. the ode “lamiyyat al-'arab”, attributed to shanfara, is a traditional poem full of contradictory concepts. the present researchers examined these opposing concepts in this ode ...

Fifty Years of Physics--A Study in Contrasts.

An MRI - based Study of Pharyngeal Volume Contrasts in Akan

Characteristic differences in pharyngeal volume between Akan +I-Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) vowel pairs have been investigated using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques, and compared to the similar TenselLax vowel distinction in English. Two subjects were scanned during steady-state phonation of three pairs of contrasting vowels. Analysis of the resulting images shows that it is the over...

A study in contrasts: two extensive Neotropical radiations

Lessa et al. (2014) make a compelling case for systematic exploration of genomes in the diverse South American rodent fauna. Not only do the caviomorph and sigmodontine rodents comprise a sizable portion of the continental fauna, but they have radiated into virtually all available habitats and have adopted practically all of the life modes exploited by rodents elsewhere. Both are diverse and de...