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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 ... -
Common variants in left/right asymmetry genes and pathways are associated with relative hand skill
(2013-09-12) - Journal articleHumans display structural and functional asymmetries in brain organization, strikingly with respect to language and handedness. The molecular basis of these asymmetries is unknown. We report a genome-wide association study ... -
Common visual preference for curved contours in humans and great apes
(2015-11-11) - Journal articleAmong the visual preferences that guide many everyday activities and decisions, from consumer choices to social judgment, preference for curved over sharp-angled contours is commonly thought to have played an adaptive role ... -
Commonsense, skeptical theism, and different sorts of closure of inquiry defeat
(2017-01) - Journal articleTrent Dougherty argues (contra Jonathan Matheson) that when taking into consideration the probabilities involving skeptical theism (ST) and gratuitous evils, an agent may reasonably affirm both ST and that gratuitous evils ... -
Communicating with people living with dementia who are nonverbal : the creation of Adaptive Interaction
(2017-08-01) - Journal articleLoss of verbal language production makes people with dementia appear unreachable. We previously presented a case study applying nonverbal communication techniques with a lady with dementia who could no longer speak, which ... -
Communication and re-use of chemical information in bioscience
(2005-07-18) - Journal itemThe current methods of publishing chemical information in bioscience articles are analysed. Using 3 papers as use-cases, it is shown that conventional methods using human procedures, including cut-and-paste are time-consuming ... -
Communication during sex among female bonobos : effects of dominance, solicitation and audience
(2012-03-01) - Journal articleBonobo females frequently form close bonds, which give them social power over other group members. One potential mechanism to facilitate female bonding is the performance of sexual interactions. Using naturalistic observations ... -
Communication in the second and third year of life : relationships between nonverbal social skills and language
(2016-08) - Journal articleWe aimed to investigate developmental continuities between a range of early social and communicative abilities (including gestural communication) and language acquisition in children aged between 11 and 41 months. Initiation ... -
A communication support system for older people with dementia
(2007-05) - Journal articleCIRCA lets those with short-term memory loss draw on reminiscences to converse with relatives and caregivers. The system, which software engineers, psychologists, and designers developed with caregiver input, features a ... -
Communities of the blessed : the origins and development of regional churches in Northern Italy, c.250 - 381 C.E.
(1997) - ThesisThis thesis argues that the origins and evolution of Christian communities in Northern Italy between c. 250 and 381 are comprehensible only within the region's social environment. Whereas previous studies of early ...