Recent research has revealed that the Benedictine abbey of Maredsous exerted significant but conflicting influences on missionary architecture in China through two different channels. These were by no means result a strategy pursued Maredsous. After having introduced interwoven Belgian and networks China, this article focuses architectural connections China. First, missionary-architect Father A...

Sperm interaction with an egg in animals was first documented 160 years ago in sea urchins by Alphonse Derbès (1847) when he noted the formation of an "envelope" following the sperm's "approach" to the egg. The "envelope" in sea urchins is an obvious phenotype of fertilization in this animal and over the past 35 years has served to indicate a presence of calcium released from cytoplasmic stores...

Márcia Lima Bandeira E-mail address: [email protected] Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo/Fundação Getulio Vargas São Paulo, SP, Brazil. ABSTRACT While trade credit may be used as a substitute for bank loans, we find empirical evidence that listed firms do use bank debt and trade credit as two complementary sources of financing in line with recent theoretical papers (e.g...

Among the defined sexual perversions, two emerged from the literary laboratory and bear the names of authors. As is well known, the term sadism refers back to Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade (1740–1814). Leaving aside some excesses in the Lacoste ancestral castle and in Paris, Sade’s sadism basically involved a monumental prison-fantasy. For its part, the term masochism has an A...

Although the weather was sultry and warm, the boy shivered with high fever. Even a thick blanket was not adequate for his shivers. He was having these fevers for the last few days periodically. What he did not know was that within the next day he would go into a coma, and unless he was given quinine immediately, he might die. In the late nineteenth century, such malaria attacks were very common...

The use of secular variation in Earth’s magnetic field for dating purposes archeology and volcanology began with the first developments paleomagnetism. This paper traces key contributions Paul-Louis Mercanton, Pierre David, Bernard Brunhes, Raymond Chevallier early 20th century, between seminal works Giuseppe Folgheraiter 1890s Emile Thellier 1930s, all whom expressed a strong interest these ap...

This article emphasizes the important role Natural History has played in the production of medical knowledge from the end of the eighteenth century on. It also tries to clarify the strategic position Brazilian empire came to have in the nineteenth century in relation with etiologically and environmentally oriented research programs under the patronage of Medical Geography. The analysis of the F...

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