In aspiring to investigate diverse industrial and technological collections the Congruence Engine project highlights fragmentation loss of knowledge that often occurs when an industry or individual workplace closes, a technology becomes obsolescent redundant. Until relatively recently (often due narrow institutional responsibilities collecting policies) heritage sector has had little ability se...

The announcement this spring followed months of speculation: Kim Nasmyth will assume the Whitley Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford at the start of 2006, taking over from Ed Southern. Nasmyth is presently Director of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna and is well known for his work on the yeast cell cycle and chromosome segregation (for more details see Curr. Bi...

This paper aims to explore the roots of nativist discourse among Iranian intellectuals in 20th century prior Islamic Revolution, a based on Eastern authenticity and felt need for return Islamic, Persian, or Asian traditions. general tendency took various forms anti- even pro-regime intellectuals, including severe anti-modernist evaluations Al-e-Ahmad, Hossein Nasr, Ahmad Fardid, Ehsan Naraqi. m...

This paper aims to perform a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on ten TEDx talks in Saudi Arabia. The analysis reveal how linguistic choices shape or are shaped by ideological assumptions and power relations, particularly the use of rhetorical strategies such as questions, repetition, figurative speech, religious phrases pronouns. While previous studies have explored persuasion various language...