The often-told tale of Zulu King Shaka and his diviners may tell us more about colonial religion and politics in the nineteenth century than it does about Zulu religion and politics. The tale unfolds in various nineteenth-century books, popular and contemporary histories, and in oral traditions. Writers have frequently portrayed it as a key point in King Shaka’s leadership, most especially E A ...

The tale of a lame, one-eyed, toothless camel 1 may not, at first glance, seem an auspicious start for ground-breaking discoveries of penicillin, X-rays and chocolate chip cookies. However, when Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in 1754, based on the tale of ‘The Three Princes of Serendip’ and the aforementioned camel, he was giving name to the accidental sagacity (i.e. accidental wisd...

Sommario Nei sistemi P2P un serio problema che ne limita la scalabilità è l’esplosione di traffico dovuto al fatto che ogni peer propaga le query a tutto l’insieme dei peer ad esso noti. In questo lavoro affrontiamo tale problema proponendo una strategia per ridurre il numero di peer a cui propagare le query selezionando quei peer verso i quali l’aspettativa è alta. L’innovatività della propost...

Siamo interessati a risolvere i seguenti problemi: Problema 1 (Covering Problem,CP) Trovare la copertura di costo totale minimo, cioè il sottoinsieme J ′ di J tale che: 1. Ognuna delle caselle è ricoperta da almeno un pezzo contenuto in J ; 2. La somma dei “costi” dei pezzi di J ′ è minima tra tutti i sottoinsiemi che soddisfano (1). Problema 2 (Partitioning Problem,PP) Trovare la partizione di...

Transcription activator-like effector (TALE) nucleases (TALENs) have recently emerged as a revolutionary genome editing tool in many different organisms and cell types. The site-specific chromosomal double-strand breaks introduced by TALENs significantly increase the efficiency of genomic modification. The modular nature of the TALE central repeat domains enables researchers to tailor DNA recog...

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

The article examines the early stages of work Italian children’s poet, prose writer, and editor periodicals, Gianni Rodari. authors analyze Rodari’s in context postwar situation Italy; considers relations with Soviet Russia sources popularity his Russian translations on example tale-tale “The Adventures Cipollino”.

In Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition Ruth Bottingheimer proposes to correct the historical narrative of the emergence of the fairy tale in Europe and to recognize "Straparola's role as an originator in the history of modern fairy tale" (Bottingheimer 2002:3). Giovanni Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is not exactly an unknown figure in folktale history.1 Hi...

Telling stories to help relieve a woman in labor may be soothing, but one must be sure to choose the right tale.