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Sila

An ancient Sumerian unit of volume approximately equivalent to one liter.

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The villages of Shila, Dooru, Dapa, Gultary and Arando Shigar valley are located at an altitude of over 10000 to 12 thousand feet above sea level.

Cold wave still persists in Baltistan, adding to hardships of residents

We are grateful for the review expertise of Marian Joergensen and her assistance in preparing the manuscript and for the highly qualified assistance with laboratory analyses by Ann Berith Petersen, Shila Mortensen, and Jesper Roenn.

Human parechovirus infection, Denmark

Shila et al [11] presented a solution to defend selective forwarding attack (gray hole attack) in Wireless Mesh Networks [12].

Intrusion detection for black hole and gray hole in MANETs

Pritpal, Reena and Daljeet Bhambra | Shila Bhambra "MY mum is my dad's carer.

are Our mums one in a million! WE asked you to sing your mums' praises in the run-up to Mothers' Day. Here are some of your glowing tributes we received:

The exhibition, opened by Shila Dekshet, Senior Minister of the Government of Delhi Province, accommodates artistic collections and Islamic manuscripts both in Arabic and Urdu.

Saudi ambassador attends Islamic Arts exhibition in Delhi

On its heading had a line "Annotations by Shila Akara" and at its bottom had "Written by Nub Chandrakirti in the middle spring month at Vikramashila".

From Lhasa to India

THE TEAM: Staff nurse Susan Rayner, nursing assistant Rosie Fowler, senior Sister Diana Swales-Pickering , nursing assistant Shila Akhtar, staff nurse Natalie Dobosch, staff nurse Jayne Oldroyd and sister Jackie O'Reilly (Pontefract) and, above, Staff nurse Rayner, who has worked at the unit for 17 years and is due to retire next month Picture: Roger Moody

NEW KIDNEY UNIT OPENS; Chief executive hails 'fantastic' pounds 1.5m facility

A stone, shila, that once rested in a quarry is transformed into a sculpture, shilpa, through the skilful interventions of a sculptor, shilpi.

Shila, shilpa, devata: invoking the divine in South Indian sculpture

Shila Tirabassi, who epitomized Stephen Petronio's muscular, elegant choreography for 10 years, bas retired from the company at 33.

Shila Tirabassi

Several well-known Chinese scholars have discussed the Han dynasty's interest in shila, but none noticed that this idea did not appear until the second half of the Western Han.

Excavating the genealogy of classical studies in the western Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-8 C.E.)

CRISTHIAN PEREZ VILLALOBOS, ** CARMEN BONNEFOY DIBARRAT, ADHERYS CABRERA FLORES, SHILA PEINE GRANDON, CLAUDETTE MUNOZ RUIZ, MARJORIE BAQUEDANO RODRIGUEZ, JORGE JIMENEZ ESPINOZA

Analisis, desde la psicologia positiva, de la salud mental en alumnos universitarios de primer ano de Concepcion (Chile)

In 1954, India and China signed an eight-year agreement on Tibet that set forth the basis of their relationship in the form of Panch Shila (Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence).