/library/oar/handle/123456789/20005 2026-06-21T01:33:27Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20143 Title: Hyphen : Volume 1, Number 1 Editors: Buhagiar, Victor F.; Mallia-Milanes, Victor; Eynaud, Charles Abstract: Hyphen, Volume 1, No. 1 (Autumn 1977) 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20142 Title: Hydroponics : plants without soil Abstract: In the early 1930s an American Professor, Dr. Wiffiam Gericke, of the University of California attempted to transform laboratory-style soilless cultivation into practical terms. Taking advantage of the sunny Californian climate, he set out-of-door growing units. He had considerable success and he proceeded to name the new garden science hydroponics. With the publication of the results of these tests, the use of hydroponics spread across most parts of the world. Hydroponics is generally defined as the science of growing plants without using soil feeding them instead on solutions of water and mineral salts, rather than relying upon the traditional methods. However; hydroponics has been employed in numerous ways and in different forms. An immense amount of scientific research has been undertaken to develop really simple and practical ways of growing plants without soil. 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20141 Title: Britain and Malta 1787-1798 Abstract: At times abortive negotiations can throw interesting and useful light on more important developments and this is so in the case of the unsuccessful negotiations between the Order of St. John and Great Britain during the last decade of the eighteenth century. The negotiations illustrate on the one hand the Order's struggle for survival in the hostile environment created by french revolution and the wars that followed, and on the other Britain's first unsteady steps towards the evolution of her Mediterranean policy - central to a proper understanding of British foreign policy down to the Suez crisis of 1956. More important the negotiations highlight Malta's strategic importance, both positive and negative, to great powers vying for control over the Mediterranean. 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20140 Title: Courtly love : a short note on the Tales of the Franklin and the Wife of Bath Abstract: Early in the twelfth century there appeared in the lyric poetry of the troubadours of the south of France an essentially novel and revolutionary conception of love. Though love and lust are as old as the first man, courtly love or fin amour, was the product of a medieval consciousness. 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z