a total number of 66 chorionic villus samples were cytogenetically investigated. the samples consisted of 30 experimental cvs from spontaneously aborted materialand 36 from live gestations.80% of the samples were successfully grown, of the 30 cases 40% (12) and 33% (10)contained a normal female and a normal male karyotype, respectively, 3.3% (1) and3.3% (1) had abnormal karyotypes (47,xx, + 21;...

The period of ottoman occupation of Iraq was characterized by the same style of buildings and they used local materials as did their predecessors. At the beginning of ottoman occupation, governors were focusing on build mosques and religion schools (Tkaya). Houses were built in random styles depending on the experiences of the builders. For this reason, the houses became irregular and expanded ...

Fundamental Studies of Butane Oxidation over ModelSupported Vanadium Oxide Catalysts: Molecular Structure-Reactivity Relationships Israel E. Wachs,∗ Jih-Mirn Jehng,∗,1 Goutam Deo,∗,2 Bert M. Weckhuysen,∗,3 V. V. Guliants,† J. B. Benziger,† and S. Sundaresan† ∗Zettlemoyer Center for Surface Studies, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015; and †Depart...

1. Hipparchus and Plutarch. Plutarch was a Greek biographer and philosopher from Chaeronea, who was born before a.d. 50 and died after a.d. 120. He is best known for his Parallel Lives, which inspired such Renaissance writers as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Dryden, and Rousseau. His many other works have been gathered together under the name Moralia, \a collection of comparatively short treatises an...

This book is a history of the culture of the Italian Renaissance in a period (roughly 1400–1550) in which contemporaries claimed that art and literature was ‘reborn’. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Renaissance movement was a systematic attempt to go forward by going back – in other words, to break with medieval tradition by following an older model, that of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Hundr...

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intervening in contemporary debates and hoping thereby to shape the future. Despite the occasional plangent note, Chedzgoy’s book celebrates the voices of the women she studies, voices that are often grieving and nostalgic, but also by turns witty, brittle, defiant, erudite, eccentric, and full of pluck. Women’s Writing in the British Atlantic World is a dignified and elegant monument and memor...

This book is a history of the culture of the Italian Renaissance in a period (roughly 1400–1550) in which contemporaries claimed that art and literature was ‘reborn’. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Renaissance movement was a systematic attempt to go forward by going back – in other words, to break with medieval tradition by following an older model, that of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Hundr...

In this essay, Jennifer Richards suggests that a study of Gabriel Harvey’s neglected poetry and prose qualifies his current reputation as a purely pragmatic Renaissance humanist. In his literary writings, Harvey explores the different ways in which social bonds are formed and sustained; this interest is also manifested in his marginalia. Richards considers the continuity between Harvey’s work a...

Germany is a most appropriate place for this exploration. Johannes Gutenberg’s western invention of the printing press about 1450 made the Renaissance possible and the printed text both possible and affordable. Martin Luther’s insistence fifty years later that the written word was not a danger to people and that the Bible and other texts should be “unchained” and made available in the vernacula...