Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994) is the story of two girls in New Zealand who form an intense erotic friendship based on a fantasy world they create, and how their forced separation leads them to commit matricide. Beneath the sensational surface, though, is another story: this is a film about cinema, about desire, and how queer spectators create new and unexpected meanings. This articl...

Many behavioural studies of laboratory house mice have sought functional explanations for their results. This raises the problem of the comparability of behaviour with that of wild house mice from whose naturally selected repertoire the behaviour of laboratory strains has been derived. This in turn requires careful choice of measures to ensure that subtle changes in response during the selectio...

Abraham-Samuel, K. & Alexander, K.M. (1988): Myoglobin levels in the ventricular myocardia of certain birds. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy Part B Biological Sciences 54 (4): 257-259. Abraham-Samuel, K. & Alexander, K.M. (1991): Distribution pattern of certain metabolites in the ventricular myocardia of the house crow, Corvus splendens. Journal of Animal Morphology and Physi...

Problems during transport have been described in the l i t e ra tu re f o r human embryos desp i t e specifically-designed dry shippers, including failure of the dry shipper and poorer outcomes using the transported material. The aim of the present study was to examine the performance after thawing of embryos imported to the Hollywood Fertility Centre in a dry-shipper (MVE SC 4/2V). A total of ...

The independence of two phenotypic characters affected by both pleiotropic and nonpleiotropic mutations is investigated using a generalization of M. Slatkin's stepwise mutation model of 1987. The model is used to determine whether predictions of either the multivariate normal model introduced in 1980 by R. Lande or the house-of-cards model introduced in 1985 by M. Turelli can be regarded as typ...

This study used a structured diagnostic interview to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity among 29 men and 23 women substance abusers residing in 1 of 11 Oxford House communities located within a Midwestern metropolitan area. The Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) was used to measure current and lifetime DSM-III-R diagnosis in addition to sociodemographic and substance abuse i...

suitable utilization of daylight in architecture, in addition to meeting the physical and emotional needs of human increase the quality of living spaces. from this perspective, our country's rich architecture has valuable achievements and experiences, which requires recognizing and introducing it to the architectural community of iran and the world. the present research intends to examine ...

Most existing automatic house price estimation systems rely only on some textual data like its neighborhood area and the number of rooms. The final price is estimated by a human agent who visits the house and assesses it visually. In this paper, we propose extracting visual features from house photographs and combining them with the house’s textual information. The combined features are fed to ...