An x-ray diffraction technique capable of measuring the thicknesses of epitaxial thin films with high precision is described. The advantages of this method are that it is nondestructive, straightforward, and rapidly ...

The mechanism of action of a general class of mechanism-based inhibitors of serine proteases, including human neutrophil elastase (HNE), has been elucidated by determining the X-ray crystal structure of an enzyme-inhibitor ...

This article addresses the implications of the new Web meta-language XML for World Wide Web searching. Compared to HTML, XML is more concerned with structure of data than documents. These XML data structures, especially ...

A surge of Irish nationalism in the late nineteenth century inspires W. B. Yeats to devote his life to contributing to the Irish Literary Renaissance. At the beginning of Yeats's playwriting career, he co-founds the National ...

This research attempts to show a correlation between metaphor and translation and give recommendations on translation using something other than word or sentence meaning. What a word means is a complicated subject. This ...

Librarians are often assigned collection development responsibilities in unfamiliar subject areas, then struggle to learn about new subjects, assess local needs, and identify major publishers. Even experienced selectors ...

Wearing barefoot-style (minimalist) shoes is suggested as a transition between wearing shoes and barefoot running. Some sources equate wearing Vibram FiveFingers™(VFFs), a brand of barefoot shoes, with running/walking ...