The aim of the article is to characterize peculiarities regional literature in a specific type children’s – non-fiction books. research focuses on analysis narrative Kurzeme, cultural and historical region Latvia, books for children by four contemporary Latvian authors Gundega Sēja, Vitauts Ļūdēns, Valdis Klišāns Pēteris Blūms. Using methodology semiotic analysis, has identified main trends rep...

Consider a flight with 10 seats and a number of travel agents each trying to book two seats on the flight. 1) Write a class Flight with to integer value attribute for total number of seats and number of booked seats (make them static to simplify) 2) Write a class TravelAgent which is implemeted as a thread. TravelAgent checks if there are two seats available and books them. 3) In Flight, create...

The proliferation of e-commerce has enabled a new set of applications that allow globally distributed purchasing of commodities such as books, CDs, travel tickets, etc., over the Internet. These commodities can be represented on line by tokens, which can be distributed among servers to enhance the performance and availability of such applications. There are two fundamental approaches for distri...

international travel has become increasingly common and accessible, hence, about two billion passengers undertake international and domestic air travel each year. venous thromboembolism (vte) is a serious public health disorder which may occur following prolonged travel, especially after air travel. a direct relation between vte development and prolonged travels has been documented, while some ...

Two of the note-books of William Beaumont, now in the possession of Washington University College of Medicine, have been reproduced, misspellings and all, in their entirety. The first of these note-books is Beaumont's medical note-book containing excerpts from medical authors, case histories, comments on Army medicine, prescriptions, and descriptions of methods for treating diseases. This note-...

Two of the note-books of William Beaumont, now in the possession of Washington University College of Medicine, have been reproduced, misspellings and all, in their entirety. The first of these note-books is Beaumont's medical note-book containing excerpts from medical authors, case histories, comments on Army medicine, prescriptions, and descriptions of methods for treating diseases. This note-...

thriving. Blackwell’s in Oxford, Malaprop’s in North Carolina, and Rizzoli in New York City are a few of the others around the world where I’ve spent many an hour roaming the stacks until a book would find me. I have a particular affinity for the Tattered Cover: a few years ago, it successfully resisted the release of a list of customers’ purchases to law enforcement, based on First Amendment r...

an error founded on insufficient knowledge can be easily made clear. Passages in the Mahabharata (an epic poetn dealing with events 1200 B.C., but put together about 1,000 years later), I etc., show that drunkenness was common in ancient India; and this may be gathered also from the old Hindu law books, which forbid the use of wine (e.g. Mandva-Dhdrma-Sdstra, xi., 1-46 ff). In the Abhila-Shithd...

BACKGROUND Due to the high volume of travel and the spread of various diseases as well as disorders during a trip, one of the major concerns for travelers is the issues related to disease spread, control, and prevention. The approach of philosophers and traditional physicians along with hygiene measures were noted as trip recommendations in their textbooks. Considering negligence in disease pre...