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Coming home again : Johannes Hofer, Edmund Spenser, and premodern nostalgia
(2016) - Journal articleThe word ‘nostalgia’ was coined by the Swiss medical student Johannes Hofer in his 1688 Dissertatio Medica de Nostalgia, oder Heimwehe. Hofer’s treatise and Edmund Spenser’s 1595 poem Colin Clovts Come home againe exemplify ... -
A comment on "Can relaxation of beliefs rationalize the winner's curse? An experimental study"
(2015) - Journal articleIvanov, Levin, and Niederle (2010) use a common-value second-price auction experiment to reject beliefs-based explanations for the winner's curse. ILN's conclusion, however, stems from the misuse of theoretical arguments. ... -
Comment on 'Quantum Friction-Fact or Fiction?'
(2010-06-04) - Journal itemIf quantum friction existed (Pendry 2010 New J. Phys. 12 033028) an unlimited amount of useful energy could be extracted from the quantum vacuum and Lifshitz theory would fail. Both are unlikely to be true. -
Comment: Beyond ‘evolutionary versus social’: moving the cycle shift debate forward
(2014-06-17) - Journal articleWood, Kressel, Joshi, and Louie (2014) thoroughly evaluate the evidence for menstrual cycle shifts in ratings of several male characteristics and conclude that their analyses fail to provide supportive evidence for consistent ... -
A commentary on Q. Curtius Rufus 'Historiae Alexandri' Book X
(1992) - ThesisThis thesis consists of a text and commentary on Book Ten of Quintus Curtius Rufus' His toriae Alexandri Magni Macedonis; the work was probably written in the middle of the first century A.D. The main body of the commentary ... -
Commentary, with introduction, text and translation, on selected poems of Theordulf of Orleans (Sirmond III. 1-6)
(1991) - ThesisThe first introductory chapter addresses the facts of Theodulf's life and career and the primary and secondary source material that supports these facts and attempts to establish a firm outline of his life and career. The ... -
Commentary: Fairness is intuitive
(2016-05-09) - Journal itemCappelen et al. (2015) show that ‘fair’ decisions are quicker than are ‘selfish’ decisions. On this basis, they infer that fairness is ‘intuitive’. We argue that they commit a reverse inference fallacy. One might argue ... -
Comments back from the Sustainable Communities Summit Workshop : creating communities with low environmental impact
(Sustainable Development Commission, 2005-02-14) - ReportBased on 'Report back from Sustainable Communities Summit Workshop : creating communities with a low environmental impact'. -
Comments on the food and health problem analysis paper
(Sustainable Development Commission, 2003-11-24) - ReportThis report comments further on 'Food and health action plan : Food and health problem analysis for comment' which usefully summarises current policies and initiatives. However, some on-going initiatives are not mentioned; ... -
Commerce and philanthropy : the Religious Tract Society and the business of publishing
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Commercial relations between the Arab world and India (3rd and 4th/9th and 10th centuries)
(University of St Andrews, 1987) - ThesisThe present work is mainly concerned with the commercial relations between the Arab world and India in the 3rd and 4th / 9th and 10th centuries. The thesis consists of an Introduction and five chapters. The introduction ... -
Common garden experiments in the genomic era : new perspectives and opportunities
(2016-03) - Journal itemThe study of local adaptation is rendered difficult by many evolutionary confounding phenomena (e.g. genetic drift and demographic history). When complex traits are involved in local adaptation, phenomena such as phenotypic ... -
Common HLA alleles associated with health, but not with facial attractiveness
(2007-07) - Journal articleThree adaptive hypotheses have been proposed to explain the link between the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) genes, health measures and facial attractiveness: inbreeding avoidance, heterozygote advantage and frequency-dependent ... -
Common human reason in Kant : a study in Kant’s moral psychology and philosophical method
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisIn my thesis I explain why the common, pre-theoretical understanding of morality is an important part of Kant’s ethics, and I critically evaluate what the strengths and weaknesses are of doing ethics with the common ... -
The common marmoset genome provides insight into primate biology and evolution
(2014-08) - Journal articleWe report the whole-genome sequence of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). The 2.26-Gb genome of a female marmoset was assembled using Sanger read data (6×) and a whole-genome shotgun strategy. A first analysis has ... -
A common neural system mediating two different forms of social judgement
(2010-07) - Journal articleBackground. A wide range of neuropsychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), are associated with impairments in social function. Previous studies have shown that individuals with ... -
Common phenolic metabolites of flavonoids, but not their unmetabolized precursors, reduce the secretion of vascular cellular adhesion molecules by human endothelial cells
(2016-03-01) - Journal articleBackground: Flavonoids have been implicated in the prevention of cardiovascular disease; however, their mechanisms of action have yet to be elucidated, possibly because most previous in vitro studies have used supraphysiological ... -
Common properties of the nuclear body protein SP100 and the TIF1alpha chromatin factor: the role of SUMO modification
(2001-05) - Journal articleThe SP100 protein, together with PML, represents a major constituent of the PML-SP100 nuclear bodies (NBs). The function of these ubiquitous subnuclear structures, whose integrity is compromised in pathological situations ... -
Common values for the European Union : a view from a candidate state
(Print Cottage and Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies, University of Delhi, South Campus, 2004) - Book item -
A common variant associated with dyslexia reduces expression of the KIAA0319 gene
(2009-03) - Journal articleNumerous genetic association studies have implicated the KIAA0319 gene on human chromosome 6p22 in dyslexia susceptibility. The causative variant(s) remains unknown but may modulate gene expression, given that (1) a ...