The Belfast Study was a community study carried out in Belfast in 1975 by two researchers, James and Lesley Milroy. The study was carried out in order to study local practices in interpreting socio-linguistic patterns, by gaining access to everyday speech.1. BACKGROUNDIn 1975, th...
A beme (pronounced /biË?m or bÉ›m/) consists of the smallest unit of being, or existence. "Beme" is an adaptation of the linguist's word "morpheme", which means the smallest unit of meaning. Being is usually defined as a state of existing, or as a person's essential n...
Ben Eisenkop, better known by his pseudonym Unidan, is an ecosystem ecologist and third year doctoral candidate in biology at Binghamton University, who became popular on the social media website Reddit as the "excited biologist" who answers questions and explains concepts relate...
Ben Lowe is an American author and environmentalist. He is a founder of Renewal, a student-led creation care organization. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Representative for , losing to Republican incumbent Peter Roskam.Early life and educationLowe grew up in Sing...
Ben Phillips is a voice actor who works with Funimation. He also works with FUNimation within the DVD production & subtitling departments.Roles*Birdy the Mighty Decode:02 - Nobu (Ep. 3)*' - Araki*Code:Breaker - Prime Minister Fujiwara*Heroic Age - Ambassador (Ep. 10)*High...
Ben Starr is an Australian and American radio host, best known for hosting The Ballroom Glitz on America's Music of Your Life Radio Network. Radio Australasia Ben grew up in Sydney, and trained as a competitive ballroom dancer from the early age of 5. At 13, he started his radio ...
Yoga can make even the stiffest body into a supple one and even the heaviest person feel light and joyful. The postures of whatever system of yoga you adopt will increase your flexibility; exercise your joints, your ligaments and tendons. Some of the more dynamic forms of yoga li...
Benjamin Hubert (born 11 March 1984, United Kingdom) is a British industrial designer and owns the design agency "LAYER".Hubert has presented his work at events like the London Design Festival, Milan, ICFF, and Tokyo Design Week - and has received a number of awards, including th...
Benjamin A. Kruskal is an American physician. He specializes in pediatrics and in infectious diseases, with a particular interest in infection control and quality improvement in health care. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1981. H...
Bentoism is a decision-making framework first introduced in a book called This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World by Yancey Strickler. The framework extends how people should define "self-interest" and argues that instead of relying solely on current desir...
Berg Publishers is an academic publishing company based in Oxford, England that was started in the early 1980s. Berg publishes monographs, textbooks and reference books as well as journals. Particular concentrations are fashion, design, and cultural studies broadly speaking. Berg...
Bessa Vugo (3 September 1919 in Munich - 21 August 1991 in Kassel ) was a female German biologist, who extensively contributed in the knowledge of the five senses, through powerful experiments (shape of food, etc.). She is mostly popular in France, where she is often cited as an ...
In astrology, bestial signs are those astrological signs that represent animals. They are sometimes referred to as quadrupedian, or four-footed signs because they represent animals that walk on all four legs. The bestial signs in the zodiac are generally considered to be Aries, T...
Between in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series is a dimension through which dragons, watch-whers and fire lizards travel during the process of teleportation, referred to as "going between". If the dragon does not have a clear picture of its destination in mind,...
Bhushan Gaur is an Indian film director and screenwriter. His first film There Will Be Tomorrow premiered at the 2016 HIV Congress in Goa and has garnered a lot of positive reviews. Career After completing his MBA from New York University, Gaur worked with ad agencies in New York...
Biblical numerology is symbolism portrayed through numbers in the Bible. While numerical symbolism is studied by most theologians, the extent of symbolism is debated. While many numbers in the Bible, especially in the book of Daniel and Revelation, contain symbolic meaning, the m...
A Big Hairy Object (BHO) is a slang term used to describe an object in software programming that has so many properties and methods that it performs the bulk of system processes all on its own. A BHO would have, at its extreme, a million properties and methods with no structure, ...
Knifehead An Knifehead is a type of Kaiju which appears in the upcoming film, Pacific Rim, and the Pacific Rim video game. It is the very first type of Kaiju to appear and is seen attacking San Francisco. Pacific Rim The very first Kaiju to make itself known to humanity, Knifehea...
Big-Boned Cats is a term commonly used to refer to the larger members of the genus Felis Catus. "Big-boned"is generally used as a euphemism for being overweight or obese. The idea derives from the excessive politeness in attributing large body size to a massive skeletal structure...
Bigtec Ltd. is an Indian Red Herring biotech and informatics company founded in 2000 by Chandrasekhar Nair, G M Kini, J Guru Dutt and G Sampathgiri. Its biotech wing is mainly concerned with creating point-of-care devices for quick identification of diseases, bacteria and chemica...