Based on the plot of Swan Lake, Black depicts an ingenue’s metamorphosis into a woman and prima ballerina that contains fairy-tale in which naïve heroine overcomes enemies obstacles order to achieve success sexual maturity. Unlike traditional fairy tale, this cinematic tale concludes with death clear distinctions between good evil, helper adversary reality vs. fantasy are fluid. As many tales, ...

Functional approach to autobiographical memory (AM) posits its three broad functions: directive, self, and social. Although these functions are probably universal, life stage and gender variations are expected. This research builds on previous studies investigating the validity of Thinking About Life Experiences Questionnaire (TALE; Bluck and Alea, 2011). A sample of 365 adults (56% female, mea...

Software industry has a huge amount of legacy programs needing modernization and re-engineering. We are especially interested in re-engineering legacy programs via language conversion. In language conversion, the source and target languages can be either from the same programming paradigm or from different ones. Thus, we consider program modernization from two aspects. If the source and target ...

Conflict is a common but complicated phenomenon. It has been extensively researched in many domains, including philosophy, sociology, psychology, and linguistics. Using the Critical Discourse Approach, this study examines issue of self-society conflict The Handmaid’s Tale. significance work lies identification explanation discursive strategies that force ideological polarization positively port...

Transacting factors often form homo- and heterodimers and regulate various targets, the type of regulation depending on the dimeric combination. The WUS and TALE subfamilies are two atypical homeodomains in plants. A homeodomain mediates sequence-specific binding to its target DNA and usually consists of 60 amino acid residues, whereas atypical homeodomains have extra amino acid residues in the...

Targeted genome engineering requires nucleases that introduce a highly specific double-strand break in the genome that is either processed by homology-directed repair in the presence of a homologous repair template or by non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) that usually results in insertions or deletions. The error-prone NHEJ can be efficiently suppressed by 'nickases' that produce a single-strand...

This research report undertakes an interdisciplinary review of the concept of “control” (i.e. the idea that people should have greater “control” over their data), proposing an analysis of this concept in the field of law and computer science. Despite the omnipresence of the notion of control in the EU policy documents, scholarly literature and in the press, the very meaning of this concept rema...

For us, readers of Chaucer living in an age when appeal to religious passions and sentiments as a means for the realization of worldly objectives by some charlatans has grown significantly, reviewing the theme of religious hypocrisy treated in The Canterbury Tales can be useful in a way that it proves a helpful means for recognizing and dealing with the hypocrites. The Pardoner of the Tales is ...

A Coprological View of Ancestral Pueblo Cannibalism Debate over a single fecal fossil offers a cautionary tale of the interplay between science and culture" (2006). Karl Reinhard Papers/Publications. Paper 2.

This paper aims to analyze Chaucer’s use of food as a sexual metaphor in the carnal universe his fabliaux, namely, The Miller’s Tale, Reeve’s and Merchant’s Tale. Fabliaux usually narrate adulterous relationship revolving around young wife, her old husband, virile man. Therefore, sex plays an essential part dynamics these tales. argues that is both associated with female characters’ escapades p...