Abstract This paper investigates why Tacitus dates the alleged appearance of phoenix in Egypt during reign emperor Tiberius to AD 34 contrast Pliny Elder and Dio who date it 36. It argues that had originally been invented as an omen not so much death Tiberius, but succession Caligula, a later source changed this cast doubt on its validity order deprive Caligula seemed characterize his time rene...

This paper introduces OMEN (On-demand Metadata Extraction Network), which addresses a fundamental problem in MIR: the lack of universal access to a large dataset containing significant amounts of copyrighted music. This is accomplished by utilizing the large collections of digitized music available at many libraries. Using OMEN, libraries will be able to perform on-demand feature extraction on ...

Nogalamycin is an anthracycline antibiotic which was mark edly cytotoxic in vitro and was active against several tumor systems in vivo. We compare here the lethality of several nogalamycin analogs against Chinese hamster ovary (CHO), mouse leukemia (L1210), and mouse melanoma (B16) cells in culture. 7-con-O-Methylnogarol (7-con-OMEN) was the most lethal of all the analogs tested. Thus, for CHO ...

Objective. To examine the reliability of human placental alkaline phosphatase (hPlAP) in the mother’s serum as a marker of premature labour among pregnant �omen �ho had no kno�n risks for premature labour and to determine the critical value of hPlAP in pregnancies �hich ended up as a premature labour. Patients and Methods. The research �as conducted in the form of a prospective study of 200 pre...