Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?: Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England offers a rich and fascinating study of the National Council of the Unmarried Mother and Her Child (later the National Council for One Parent Families, then One Parent Families and now Gingerbread), a charitable organization that was established to provide support for unmarried mothers and their children. In doing so...

Once again the computing community is coming to appreciate the expressive power of functional programming (FP) [1, 2]. Technical gatherings are buzzing with talk and, of course, debates about Haskell, Lisp/Scheme, Erlang and their younger hybrid cousins O’Caml, Scala, F# and Clojure. At the same time, popular OO languages Java and C# are being extended to support functional constructs with even...

"Myiasis" is considered in Hindu mythology as "God's punishment for sinners." It is known to infest live human or animal tissue. Literature abounds with reports of myiasis affecting the nasal cavity, ear, nonhealing ulcers, exophytic malignant growth, and cutaneous tissue. But report of myiasis of the tracheal stoma is rare. Only a few cases of tracheal myiasis have been reported in literature....

For Byzantines, catanyctic poetry offered a rich source of models for self-representation. In this paper I analyse the poetic strategies and literary motifs through which Nikephoros Ouranos (tenth–eleventh century) shaped self in his alphabet. particular, will focus on intertextual employed by order to model self, such as identification with scriptural sinners, presence biblical metaphors.