It is my pleasure to provide my letter of recommendation for Tao Wang who is applying for admission to your Ph.D. program. I am a Professor of Radiology‚ Ophthalmology‚ Neurology and Biomedical Engineering and the Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Radiology at Stony Brook University. My research programs focus on the development and application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)‚ to the study of brain and retinal anatomy‚ physiology and function in animal models and humans. They include:
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TO WHAT EXTENT DOES TSAR ALEXANDER II DESERVE THE TITLE “TSAR LIBERATOR”? Tsar of Russia from 1818 to 1881. Son of Nicholas I ascended the throne in 1855. Signed in Paris (1856) the peace that ended the Crimean War began the construction of a vast program of reforms. Open to ideas of social renewal‚ emancipated the serfs (1861) without satisfy the peasantry‚ which was granted in usufruct‚ with a strong payment of ransom‚ only a portion of the lands they occupied. Instituted the Zemstvo‚ provincial
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Alexander McCall Smith‚ the author of the award winning novel The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency spoke in a recent interview in The Sydney Morning Herald (December 2006) about his famously optimistic views of Africa and its people. The works of many African authors express rather grim and bleak views in comparison to McCall Smith’s view. In a “Foreign Correspondent” interview McCall Smith says Botswana is a very beautiful country and that Africa transformed him into a best selling novelist and made
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death of woman Wang----a picture of real lives The death of woman Wang is written by Jonathan D. Spence‚ a famous scholar of East Asian studies. This book is focus on the early days of Qing dynasty‚ when Qing dynasty had only been established for about 20 years‚ the government‚ even though the whole society‚ are in their infancies. The author discusses issues of a small county in northeastern China ---T’an-ch’eng‚ which is in the province of Shantung. The genre of this book is difficult to
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Does Alexander II truly deserve the title of liberator? To liberate is to set free (a group or individual) from legal‚ social or political restrictions. There is evidence to suggest that he disliked serfdom. Even his father‚ Nicholas I‚ believed that serfdom was an “evil palpable to all‚” and Alexander II was certainly even more liberally educated than his father. His arguably most fundamental reform was the emancipation of serfdom in 1861. As he said‚ “It is best to abolish serfdom from above
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Vera Wang is a successful fashion designer‚ who plays an important role in the fashion industry. Vera was born on June 27‚ 1949‚ in New York City. She enjoyed her lavish childhood growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side of New York City. Her family was very influential‚ and her family encouraged her to pursue anything she wanted to do. While as a teen‚ she became a talented figure skater‚ and began winning state competitions throughout college. Her talent was surely recognized. Although
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you agree that Alexander III’s reign deserves the title “The reaction”? The term “reaction” refers to the idea of opposition to the ideals of reform; it refers to the idea of a backwards change‚ usually a change towards more traditional views and in the case of Alexander III it can be argued to whether his reign was completely reactionary or reformist or to whether only some parts where. When Alexander III took the position of Tsar from his father in 1881; his father Alexander II had started
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Heng Wang Section: 655 Speech date: Feb 29th‚ 2013 Specific Purpose: this speech is aimed to persuade the audience to accept the donation of blood and be willing to donate blood for times Proposition: Blood donation is safe‚ and can save many people’s life. People should donate blood regularly. Audience Type: neutral I. Attention-getter: It is a true story about my friend. I was in a club of ski in China and one of my friends in that club called Totem‚ he is more skillful than me and
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and two children there. It no longer stands there‚ a subtle allusion to the fact that China has long pursued a policy of zero population growth. Families with more than one child are fined and public art that sends any other message is not allowed. Wang Anyi‚ who lives and writes in China‚ does not pursue the politics of the situation. She just states them as givens and focuses instead on the family dynamics and the difficulties experienced by Chen Xin in "fitting in‚" both physically into a small
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Winner-Take-All in Networked Markets: Summary By Pooyan Safari This article is partitioned into three parts which is summarized here. First‚ different kinds of platform structures are introduced. Then the most important part‚ which we will use later in order to analyze the Google study case‚ is dealt with the influencing factors on the so called structures. In the end there is shown a framework so that to analyze the factors mentioned in the previous section. By definition platforms are subset
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