In Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), the chief characters, Antigone, Creon, and Oedipus, become entangled in a complex web of events relating in important ways to both oikos (οἶκος) and polis (πολις), and each character threatens the existence or stability of one of the other (or both) of these spheres, by neglecting or rejecting outright their respective claims, rules and...

This article undertakes an evocative conjuration of alternative visions of materialism through consideration of intermediary states of matter. Specifically, it focuses on gelid, semiliquid, semisolid environments such as bogs, swamps, and marshes lying on the fringes of human settlement and against which the claims of reason and historical progress have often been staked. The article juxtaposes...

In the last decades, contemporary urbanism in global South has meant large urban transformations, tall architecture landmarks, and fierce city competition. However, cities their planners are now confronting an ethical dilemma: how to grow compete while caring for disastrous impacts on Earth human health caused by mass extraction, processing, consumption of resources linked urbanization. our art...

not available for publication. This investigation was sponsored by NIH/NIGMS MARC U*STAR T3408663 National Research Service Award to UMBC. Quantitative Analysis of Purine Nucleotide Pools Involved in an AMPK Regulatory Loop Gabriella Balaa, Danielle Schmitt Songon An, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry The purpose of this project is to quantitatively analyze purine nucleotide pools...

This paper concerns two popular myth collections that date from the mid-twentieth century: Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, first published in 1940, and Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths, first published in 1955. The dates of these collections mean that they are close enough to us that they are still considered current: both are still widely read, and are both are still in print, in an interesting vari...

In the paper, I 'rst try to give some impression of Norwegian contributions to combinatorics in the 20th century. This is followed by some remarks on my own combinatorial experiences. c © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. [It] would bring to this country something absolutely new, namely the historic and humanistic side of mathematics. The success of the Institute of the History of...