In this research, using historic studies, historic maps, period photographs, and other documentary resources, the author creates a historic Geographic Information System to connect attributes of the heritage of Chinese pioneers in a mining camp with spatial data of the historic site, and uses it as an approach to document, visualize and interpret a...

Endothelial cells play a central role in cardiovascular homeostasis by generation of numerous vasoconstrictors and vasodilators. One of the vasodilators is the endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF). The identity of EDHF is not completely clear but a widely accepted candidate is epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs)....

Rightly named for Maha-prajapati, the first bhiksuni (Buddhist nun), this sutra depicts the story of how the Buddha’s foster-mother, in her sixties at Kapilavatthu (the Buddha’s birthplace), begged the Buddha earnestly and continually to admit her and five hundred other lay women of the Sakya tribe into the monastic order....

In our age of Netflix and streaming videos, movie attendance continues its long decline, and cinema-going is becoming ever less of the collective experience Walter Benjamin so memorably described....