Following several decades of tactical experimentation, by the end of the nineteenth century Protestant missions in the Middle East were well-established and coming into increasing contact with the Muslim community. The ...
This thesis is about some teeming social actors that operate and co-exist in a society that has contradictory features: conflictual, sectarian, hierarchical, pluralistic, and quasi-cosmopolitan. These actors lie within ...
Bacteriophage λ regulates the switch from immediate-early to delayed-early gene expression by the binding of N protein to nut (N-utilization) sites in two viral transcripts. The arginine-rich domain of N protein recognizes ...
The Rev protein of the human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 (HIV-1) binds stem-loop region IIB of its target RNA, the Rev Response Element (RRE IIB), via its arginine-rich motif (ARM). This ARM-RNA interaction is an essential ...
Collective investment schemes have always been a resort for non-sophisticated in vestors. Actively-managed mutual funds are among the most popular Collective inv estment schemes. Those investments combine the investor's ...
Current online help support systems for web applications suffer important limita tions. These limitations can be related to either the lack of synchronized conte xtual help which usually renders a system ineffective, or ...
The research investigates the transformation of old Damascene houses into restau rants and boutique-hotels, specifically in the neighborhoods of Qemareye and Bab Touma in the Old City of Damascus. These transformations ...
At a distance of more than 13000 km from Jerusalem, Chile is host to the largest Palestinian community outside the Arab world. After placing the genesis of this community within the framework of the global history of ...
Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut are three American writers who fo ught in the Second World War and wrote anti-war novels based on their experience s as soldiers during the war. Mailer, Heller and Vonnegut ...