When Constantine besieged Patras in 1429, a Catalan fleet that came to the city's aid captured Glarentza, forcing Constantine to ransom it back.
In March, the al-Qaeda offshoot seized the bases and weapons of the 13th Division rebel group, one of the factions that has received foreign military aid, capturing US-made anti-tank missiles.
In this study we employed the culture independent transposon aided capture (TRACA) system to isolate novel plasmids from the human gut microbiota [ 13].
MGE: Mobile genetic elements; TRACA: Transposon aided capture; BLAST: Basic local alignment search tool; TA module: Toxin/antitoxin addiction module; HGT: horizontal gene transfer; ORF: Open reading frame.
We believe that the extent of problems in domains of functioning without any aids or personal assistance captures biological health, whereas questions about the extent of problems in the same domains but taking into consideration personal or technical assistance addresses the concept of lived health.
If stories from the aid sector capture attention and inspire action, traditional media will follow the lead.
The purpose of the cards was two-fold, he says: first as an aid to capture, and second to demonstrate power and control, "to say 'we know who you are'".
On the matter of Vermeer's possible use of a camera obscura, Mr. Bailey comes down on the side of those who believe he did in fact use some sort of scientific aid to capture perspective and light precisely, and he points to X-ray and infrared examinations of his paintings -- revealing repeated revisions of certain canvases -- to underscore the painter's methodical perfectionism.
Of course, food banks don't have the full picture: they themselves recognise that their data does not identify for the full extent of food aid, nor capture those who do not rely on food parcels but nonetheless go hungry on a regular basis, who are food insecure, or whose poverty means they spend less on healthy food.
