abstract circassians are one of the ethnic groups in the south-west of the caucasus who speak circassian language which is one of the branches of the north-east caucasus languages (ebrian-caucasian). this ethnic branch includes the caucasian ethnic abkhaz-adygian group, which are nowadays divided in three republics in the north caucasus kabardino-balkaria, karachay-cherkessia and adygeya. by us...

iii Imagine a single cell in your body, turning against you, becoming malignant, and eventually causing a life-threatening disease. Cancer is both fascinating and horrifying. For decades, scientists have battled to unravel the underlying mechanisms. Although significant progress has been made, the heart of the mystery remains unsolved.

The inside story of how Bill and Hillary Clinton fashioned the health-care plan. Their own aides often battled over the Clintons' approach.

This paper briefly introduces the context and major functions of Digital Preservation Center of National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC), and describes its digital preservation system, as well as its preservation services and future work.

This research was supported by National Institute on Aging Grant AG006858 to Timothy A. Salthouse. We would like to thank Reinhold Kliegl for valuable comments on an earlier draft of this article and E. Breitmeister, A. Fann, H. Yanous. and M. Yanous for assistance in data analysis. Correspondence concerning this art icle should be addressed to Timothy A. Salthouse, School ofPsychology, Georgia...

this article aims to analyze the imposed war between iran and iraq from a new standpoint. here, we look at the war from the viewpoint of women who were involved in the war as nurses, doctors, or reporters and etc. they lost their homes and families, or even got armed and battled against enemy. their experiences are categorized into six concepts including dis-embedding, explosion in family struc...

In this intervention I make two main suggestions to humanize refugee research. First, the tendency select “research hotspots” as field sites—where researchers tend approach same interviewees and spaces—should not only be called out avoided, but battled against. Second, suggest that research should collaborate directly with other studies of social, political, economic phenomena in an effort disp...

A Syndicated Show in a Network World: Frederic Ziv’s Favorite Story Christine Becker Journal of Radio Studies (Summer 2001): 160-174. Abstract: Across his career as one of the most successful producers of syndicated radio and television programming, Frederic W. Ziv continually battled against network domination. Forced to operate under constraints which resulted from network monopolistic practi...