Abstract The Kurdish movement has often been touted as an egalitarian struggle, and, in many ways, rightly so. However, the movement's relation to its undisputed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, remained relatively unexamined. This article seeks rectify this oversight by investigating how Öcalan informs life. To do so, employs a frame of analysis that utilizes anthropological theory on kingship. Drawin...

To the Editor: Although there is unanimous agreement that epinephrine is the first-line treatment for anaphylaxis, many with food allergy have not been prescribed an epinephrine auto-injector (EAI). As part of our nationwide Canadian study on the prevalence of food allergy, households from the 10 Canadian provinces were randomly selected from the electronic white pages and were telephoned betwe...

ABBREVIATION CCC: complex chronic conditions Dr Jurgens conceptualized and designed the study, collected data, and drafted the initial manuscript; Dr Spaeder conducted the initial analysis and reviewed and revised the manuscript; Dr Pavuluri refi ned the design of the study and reviewed and revised the manuscript; and Dr Waldman refi ned the design of the study, assisted with collection of data...

Methodology Cyber-Infrastructures (CIs) and portals such as GEON [1] and CEON [2] provide services and access to data in support of scientific efforts. With the increasing availability of CI resources, there is also a growing need for mechanisms to integrate data that have varying accuracy and sensitivity and that come from distributed sources. Workflow-Driven Ontology (WDO) is an approach that...

present communication deals with the study of four village fish culture ponds (two wild and two managed ponds) from district hisar of haryana, india was undertaken, to correlate the water quality and biological cycles in ponds with fish production. studies have revealed that the ponds are in good trophic status. chlorides, total hardness, calcium, magnesium, biochemical oxygen demand (bod), pho...

We use deep archival Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of three of the brightest cluster-centre radio galaxies in the sky, Cygnus A, Hercules A and Hydra A, to search for inverse-Compton emission from the population of electrons responsible for the low-frequency radio emission. Using simulated observations, we derive robust estimates for the uncertainties on the normalization of an inverse-Co...

Results from Chandra studies of the intracluster medium around M87 and Cygnus A are summarized.

introduction of satisfactory artificial feeding, such sustenance was also a vital factor in the lives of orphans and foundlings, for whom the alternative was direct feeding from such animals as goats. That the subject can sustain an entire book may seem surprising; however, recognizing its potential during research for her earlier work, Breasts, bottles and babies, Valerie Fildes has produced a...

This document details several stylized facts about post-war US macroeconomic data. When evaluating dynamic economic models, it is always important to keep in mind the stylized facts we want those models to be able to reproduce. The data used in this document are publicly available. The NIPA data were downloaded from the St. Louis Fed FRED website. The employment and population data are from unp...