In understanding a person’s information seeking behavior and choice of information sources, it becomes very important to understand the context surrounding the search. This context gives rise to the information need and leads a person to look for information. Research in information seeking behavior, while concentrating on systemand-person centric research, has, so far, left out studying how in...

LaRossa, Jaret, Gadgil, and Wynn (2000, 2001) conducted a content analysis of 495 comic strips published on Father’s Day and Mother’s Day in the United States from 1945 to 1999 in order to determine whether the culture of fatherhood and gender disparities in the media had changed over the past half-century. Drawing on their research, I conducted a similar kind of analysis of 246 comic strips pu...

Merrill et al. (1) propose 8900 BP as the latest date Proto-UtoAztecan (PUA) was spoken. Based on negative reconstructive evidence, they argue for a PUA homeland in the US Great Basin, observing that “a significant decrease in effective moisture” beginning in 6900 BC motivated bands to leave the region, leading to the language’s breakup. Given a Great Basin homeland, such a very early date is a...

A block with a hitherto unknown system of writing has been found in the Olmec heartland of Veracruz, Mexico. Stylistic and other dating of the block places it in the early first millennium before the common era, the oldest writing in the New World, with features that firmly assign this pivotal development to the Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica.

This article illuminates the transmedia storytelling techniques in The Walking Dead comic book and video game. Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead localizes itself within the comic book world of The Walking Dead by acting as a transmedia storytelling device and using intertextuality comics to assist game players with meaning-making. By participating in the game, Telltale rewards players with addit...

This article argues that cringe humour in British television had begun at least by the early 1960s and derived from a theatre history which conventions of Naturalism were modified emergent writers working with European avant-garde motifs. The makes case analysing importance to BBC sitcom Steptoe Son, tracing its form themes back ‘comedy menace’ ‘Theatre Absurd’ emblematised work playwright Haro...

Various studies on ancient DNA have attempted to reconstruct population movement in Asia, with much interest focused on determining the arrival of European lineages in ancient East Asia. Here, we discuss our analysis of the mitochondrial DNA of human remains excavated from the Yu Hong tomb in Taiyuan, China, dated 1400 years ago. The burial style of this tomb is characteristic of Central Asia a...

Oldest case of sarcoidosis in the world Acute sarcoidosis in an octogenarian is rare. In this case bone-mnarrow trephine biopsy uncovered an unsuspected diagnosis. Case report An 81-year-old spinster presented with a six-month history of anorexia, weight loss of 6-35 kg, and lower abdominal distension which was always relieved by an episode of diarrhoea. The only other symptoms were night sweat...