This column explores the parallels between contingent (i.e., non-tenure-track) faculty positions in academic departments and contingent librarian positions in academic libraries, examining how issues of job security, professional identity, and institutional dynamics impact professionals across these roles.Drawing on personal experience and existing
The composite salt layer of the Kuqa piedmont zone in the Tarim Basin is characterized by deep burial, complex tectonic stress, and interbedding between salt rocks and mudstone.Drilling such salt layers is associated with frequent salt rock creep and inter-salt rock lost circulation, which results in high challenges for safe drilling.Especially, th
This paper offers a new identification of two paintings executed on the first layer of plaster in the northern transversal aisle of the Faras Cathedral, which, due to their poor state of preservation at the time syil x5 price of discovery, were impossible to remove from the walls.Interpretations to date have linked the first painting with the Apost
Lianas are a quintessential tropical plant growth-form; they are speciose and abundant in tropical forests worldwide.Lianas compete intensely with trees, reducing nearly all aspects of tree performance.However, the negative effects of lianas on trees have never been combined and quantified for multiple tropical ludwig modular hardware forests.Here,