Recent scholarship has challenged the still-powerful claim that long-distance pilgrimage and journey to Jerusalem dramatically declined in number significance sixteenth century. This article seeks explore different ways which was embedded culture of period. We interpret as a field shared cross-confessional practices, representational conventions, contestation. The paper presents series interlin...

In reference to the philosophical theology of medieval Islamic theologian Ibn Taymiyya, this essay outlines a parallel between Taymiyyan thought and Alvin Plantinga's thesis 'Reformed Epistemology'. critiquing previous attempt build an account 'Islamic externalism', model offers that can be seen as wholly 'Plantingian'.

This paper reports a method to control the formation and disruption of vesicles from a novel single-tailed surfactant (11-ferrocenylundecylammonium bromide, 11-FAB), which contains two stimuli-responsive groups corresponding to pH variation and redox reaction conditions, by external stimuli. Although 11-FAB is a single-tailed surfactant, pure 11-FAB spontaneously forms vesicles in water. Micros...

We observed by using atomic force microscope (AFM) phospholipid (1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) monolayers on mica being annealed and cooled to a selection of temperatures through steps of 2-4 degrees C/min. The annealed phospholipid monolayers started to disappear at 45-50 degrees C and disappeared completely above 60-63 degrees C under AFM observation. The phospholipid monolayer...

In Italy, a substantial proportion of health care is financed by the public sector; our history of high deficit and debt means that the objective to rationalise and control expenditure has become a priority for any effective government policy. The health care system has been widely reformed and a separation between purchasing and delivering the service has been enforced to mimic the structure o...