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Body mass index relates weight to height differently in women and older adults : serial cross-sectional surveys in England (1992–2011)
(2016-09-17) - Journal articleBackground Body mass index (BMI) tends to be higher among shorter adults, especially women. The dependence of BMI–height correlation on age and calendar time may inform us about temporal determinants of BMI. Methods Series ... -
Body reserves in intra-African migrants
(2016-01) - Journal articleAvian migration has been shown to be a life history strategy for surviving environmental resource variability, but it requires increased body reserves for long distance flight. Fat reserves make excellent energy stores for ... -
Body size as a driver of scavenging in theropod dinosaurs
(2016-06) - Journal articleTheropod dinosaurs dominated Earth’s terrestrial ecosystem as a diverse group of predators for more than 160 million years, yet little is known about their foraging ecology. Maintaining a balanced energy budget presented ... -
The Bohemian Bookshelf : supporting serendipitous book discoveries through information visualization
(ACM, 2012-05-05) - Conference itemSerendipity, a trigger of exciting yet unexpected discoveries, is an important but comparatively neglected factor in information seeking, research, and ideation. We suggest that serendipity can be facilitated through ... -
The Bohemian Bookshelf : supporting serendipitous discoveries through visualization
(University of Calgary, 2011) - Working or discussion paperSerendipity, a trigger of exciting discoveries when we least expect it, is currently being discussed as an often neglected but still important factor in information seeking processes, research, and ideation. In this paper ... -
Boko Haram – terrorism against the leadership in Nigeria
(St Andrews Africa Summit, University of St Andrews, 2017-01-31) - Journal article -
Bombs and flares at the surface and lower atmosphere of the Sun
(2017-04-10) - Journal articleA spectacular manifestation of solar activity is the appearance of transient brightenings in the far wings of the Hα line, known as Ellerman bombs (EBs). Recent observations obtained by the Interface Region Imaging ... -
‘Bomb’, ‘sanction’, or ‘engage’? : the theory/political practice of the Iranian nuclear crisis from the American perspective (1998-2014)
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06) - ThesisThis thesis argues that the debate over the relationship between Theory and political practice has reached a dead-end in IR. Most scholars taking part in this debate based their claims on meta-theoretical assumptions, which ... -
Bonifacio's enterprise: Bonifacio de'Pitati and Venetian painting
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisThis dissertation takes the form of a chronologically arranged, biographical survey of the career of Bonifacio de' Pitati in the form of seven interconnected essays that address areas in which the artist's impact and ... -
Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning
(2018-02-27) - Journal articleCross-species comparison of great ape gesturing has so far been limited to the physical form of gestures in the repertoire, without questioning whether gestures share the same meanings. Researchers have recently catalogued ... -
Bonobos (Pan paniscus) vocally protest against violations of social expectations
(2016-02) - Journal articleResearch has shown that great apes possess certain expectations about social regularities and both perceive and act according to social rules within their group. During natural and experimentally induced contexts, such as ... -
Bonobos extract meaning from call sequences
(2011-04-27) - Journal articleStudies on language-trained bonobos have revealed their remarkable abilities in representational and communication tasks. Surprisingly, however, corresponding research into their natural communication has largely been ... -
Bonobos modify communication signals according to recipient familiarity
(2015-11-10) - Journal articleHuman and nonhuman primate communication differs in various ways. In particular, humans base communicative efforts on mutual knowledge and conventions shared between interlocutors. In this study, we experimentally tested ... -
The Book of Daniel and manticism: a critical assessment of the view that the Book of Daniel derives from a mantic tradition
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisThis dissertation examines the consensus view that is based on Hans-Peter Müller's 1969 and 1972 articles: Daniel was a mantic wise man in the Mesopotamian ASA court, and this was the self-understanding or aspiration ... -
The book of Daniel, chapters I-IV : text, versions and the problems of exegesis
(University of St Andrews, 1975) - ThesisThe current study deals basically with the stories of Daniel and with two chapters in the history of Jewish interpretation, the Septuagint, and selected medieval exegesis. Before considering the Old Greek version and the ... -
The Book of Jeremiah : Jeremiah 30:5 to 31:22 and the Jeremiah tradition
(University of St Andrews, 1993-07) - ThesisDavid Elmer Cox's thesis is a form critical study of the salvation/deliverance/hope poetic, prophetic oracles of the Hebrew Scriptures. Beginning with the archaeological concepts of pottery dating and stratigraphic analysis, ... -
The Book of Micah : studies in the text, versions and history of interpretation with special reference to Micah 4:14 - 5:5
(University of St Andrews, 1985-07) - Thesis -
Book Review - Delete: The virtue of forgetting in the digital age
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Book Review - Lil-tarikh wa-al-dhikra, qisat jihad wa-‘umur (For history and memory, the story of a struggle and a life) by Badr Deen Challah
(Centre for Syrian Studies, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, 2015-11-16) - Book reviewBook Review of a work by a prominent Syrian merchant who forged an alliance with Hafez al-Asad.