T he Presidential Address gave me an opportunity to pay tribute to my teacher, Rupert Billingham, by recounting the early history of transplantation. Informal conversations with Billingham during the six years I spent in his department and during a recent visit to his retirement home on Martha’s Vineyard provided me with some little known details of the story. Even ASTS members may not be famil...

Abstract Multiple religious belonging refers to the idea that individuals can belong more than one tradition. This article aims explore concept of multiple in modern China, focusing on its pattern as well social functionality gives rise such a pattern. The methodology is developed using structural functionalism formulated by, particular, Emile Durkheim, who investigated how different institutio...

Green clay layers are reported from the Pliocene–Holocene intervals in five of the six sites drilled in the South China Sea (SCS) during Leg 184. Centimeter-scale discrete, discontinuous, and bioturbated layers, constituted by stiff and porous green clays, were observed, sometimes associated with iron sulfides and pyrite. Detailed mineralogical and geochemical analyses indicate that they differ...

People believe committing suicide is caused by an individual’s mental disorder. Therefore, identified as the individual's responsibility. However, in theory of Emile Durkheim, he offers a different perspective on suicide. Durkheim argues society has influenced life According to phenomena, this study aims identify social factors that influence Nora novel The Midnight Library Matt Haig. uses desc...