construction of an overarching chronological framework for relating Archaic social and technological developments, as has been attempted, for example, for the Woodland and Mississippian periods (e.g., Emerson and Lewis 1991; Emerson et al. 2000; Farnsworth and Emerson 1986). The nature of the available archaeological data and the configuration of researchers’ study areas, however, are somewhat ...

(GRIPE) was founded in 1971 by Dr Tom Kent of the University of Iowa as an organization devoted to promoting excellence in teaching pathology to medical students. A few years ago, the Executive Board of GRIPE decided to recognize the pioneering work of Dr Kent by giving an award in his name (http://peir.path.uab.edu/griper). This prestigious award was established to give a formal recognition to...

The article introduces the notion of probabilistic net present value which is used as a criterion for choice between a franchise purchase or creation of independent company.

The sedimentary record documenting the northward drift of India (Late Cretaceous to late Early Eocene) has recently provided important clues to the evolution, radiation, and dispersal of mammals. Here, we report a definitive Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) archaic ungulate (Kharmerungulatum vanvaleni genus et species nova) from the Deccan volcano-sedimentary sequences exposed near Kisalpuri vil...

Ivan Bradford is a fifty-five year old, white male in need of a liver transplant. Ivan has been an alcoholic since he was thirty-two years old, and has developed an irreversible advanced liver disease, cirrhosis. In essence, the disease is the end result in scarring of the liver due to prolonged alcohol abuse. This scarring prevents the liver from performing many of its vital functions. Without...

1031 Vertex-degree-based molecular structure descriptors of benzenoid systems and phenylenes IVAN GUTMAN* and BORIS FURTULA** Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, P. O. Box 60, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia (Received 12 December 2011) Abstract. Several recently published papers report expressions for various vertex-degree-based molecular structure descriptors of benzenoid systems and phenyl...

Introduction: Medical students should be familiar with the endof life ethical issues and its considerations. For teaching end oflife care to medical students, literature is a source of excellentnarratives of patients with experiences of terminally ill conditionin their journey through suffering and one of the most favouritebioethics literature readings has been the death of Ivan Ilych byTolstoy...

general formulas are obtained for the vertex padmakar-ivan index (piv) of tetrathiafulvalene(ttf) dendrimer, whereby ttf units we are employed as branching centers. the piv index isa wiener-szeged-like index developed very recently. this topological index is defined as thesummation of all sums of nu(e) and nv(e), over all edges of connected graph g.