Outside of Western contexts, natural-conversation-based research on intergenerational communication is relatively rare. To help redress this imbalance, this paper explores the conversational styles of first-encounter talks between five pairs of college students and older adults in Taiwan, and infers the interactional norms that underlie them. It is found that younger Taiwanese adults tend to ex...

The first “close encounter” between the fields of chemokines and HIV occurred in the late spring of 1995, when my group at NCI’s Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology (LTCB) received from Harvard Microchemistry and Proteomics the amino acid sequences of three peptide fragments from an HPLC-purified fraction that we had submitted a few weeks earlier. The sequences showed a perfect match with the huma...

This paper delves into the use of references in architecture. By being particularly open about this often controversial subject, lvaro Siza proposes fascinating and important materials for reflection. parses two takes on his as posited by theorists William Curtis 1994 Peter Testa a decade before him. It expands seminal relevance Siza’s first encounter with Alvar Aalto. argues implications event...