Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a layered two-dimensional material with properties that make it promising as a dielectric in various applications. We report the growth of h-BN films on Ni foils from elemental B and N using molecular beam epitaxy. The presence of crystalline h-BN over the entire substrate is confirmed by Raman spectroscopy. Atomic force microscopy is used to examine the morpho...

Since 2004, European investigators have published at least 14 clinical trials that support the measurement of serum procalcitonin (PCT) levels in patients with respiratory tract infections [1–3]. The results consistently show that elevated serum PCT levels are encountered in patients with a clinical syndrome of bacterial pneumonia and that low levels correlated with a picture of viral pneumonia...

0 The polymorphism of sulfathiazole has been reexamined. The issue of the separate existence of two of the forms, forms 111 and IV, has now tieen definitively resolved: both forms exist. Single crystals were used to generate X-ray diffraction patterns, equivalent to those normally olbtained from polycrystalline samples, using the ingenious Gandolfi camera. The patterns obtained were distinct an...

The public discourse on climate change has long centred around hope-based narratives pushed by both the media and mainstream environmentalist agents from Greenpeace WWF to Bill Gates Al Gore.11 Most recently, see for instance 2021. promises of scientific technological advance in particular, they argue, give us reason be hopeful that it is our hands halt incipient catastrophe. We just need roll ...

From the cracked and humming screen of a hand-winding microfilm reader in suburban Moscow emerged slowly names correspondence several British writers. Some I had hoped to find, others were completely new me, one knew well enough but never dreamt finding here. Doris Lessing’s signature struck like lightening from reels reports on state ‘progressive’ literature West.11 Many thanks are due Goryaev...

But now start the delightful surprises. Time becomes fluid […] And inside this fluidity a permanence, for person who looks at old face in mirror is same as one shares your earliest memories, when you were two, perhaps less: that child’s core woman’s. ‘Here I still am: haven’t changed all.’ Best of all, not ever predicted nor, think, described, fresh liveliness experiencing. Is it if some gauze ...

Bruce Wardhaugh, Competition, Effects and Predictability: Rule of Law the Economic Approach to Oxford: Hart, 2020, 272 pp, hb £70.00 Competition law scholarship tends be preoccupied with questions substance. ‘More’ or ‘less’ intervention? Contentment concern concentrated markets? Which business practices should prohibited? These are key issues significant consequences for enforcement. But subst...

The humanities in UK universities are under attack on two fronts. first is economic. A new government orthodoxy has emerged: the New Labour target for increasing participation higher education led to too many young people attending university. Arts and courses at lower-ranking have come scrutiny offering students a poor return their financial investment contributing little economic growth. Curr...

The Amazon, popularly referred to as the ‘lungs of world’, is largest rainforest and water basin in world. 11 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), ‘Environment Outlook Amazonia – GEO Amazonia’ (UNEP 2008) <http://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/9421/-Environment_Outlook_in_Amazonia_%96_GEO_Amazonia-2009GEO_Amazonia_2009_1.pdf.p...

People typically find bets less attractive when the probability of receiving a prize is more vague or ambiguous (Ellsberg, 1961). According to Fox & Tversky’s (1995) comparative ignorance hypothesis, ambiguity aversion is driven by the comparison with more familiar events or more knowledgeable individuals, and diminishes or disappears in the absence of such a comparison. In this paper we emphas...