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Peculiarities of Blazhko Stars: New Insights [PDF]
With increasingly accurate data on RR Lyrae stars we find that the Blazhko effect may be a rule rather than an exception. However, we still do not know what is the cause of this mysterious amplitude and phase modulation.
Kolenberg, Katrien
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The futuristic manifolds of REM sleep
Summary Since one of its first descriptions 70 years ago, rapid eye movement sleep has continually inspired and excited new generations of sleep researchers. Despite significant advancements in understanding its neurocircuitry, underlying mechanisms and microstates, many questions regarding its function, especially beyond the early neurodevelopment ...
Liborio Parrino, Ivana Rosenzweig
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Lafora and Trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by Lewy
Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy described, for the first time, in 1912, novel peculiar inclusions in neurons of certain brain nuclei in patients with Paralysis agitans, and compared his finding to the amyloid bodies described by Lafora one year before. Gonzalo
Eliasz Engelhardt
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Mixed‐methods research in medical education: Lessons from a meta‐study of methodological practice
Abstract Introduction Mixed‐methods research (MMR) intentionally combines (variously) theories, study designs, data collection, analyses and/or syntheses associated with more than one approach to research. Despite a rich literature on the theory and practice of MMR, the authors were concerned that much MMR in medical education fell short of the state ...
Jennifer Cleland +3 more
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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The Day Unit within the Old Assyrian Calendar
This paper analyses the units of time used in the Old Assyrian sources, from the smallest to the biggest and reviews the many aspects linked to the concepts of time and calendar in daily life, financial and commercial operations.Cet article propose une ...
Michel, Cécile
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Na marginesie historii i literatury – kilka uwag o brazylijskiej figurze polaca
The article (based on the author’s unpublished doctoral thesis) discusses a meaning of the eponym polaca in Brazilian culture. It refers to five novels by Brazilian writers and briefly analyses modes of describing a character of polaca in 20th century ...
Anna Wolny
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Abstract How can anthropologists ensure the accuracy of the statements they make in their publications, especially in an era of ever increasing budgetary and bureaucratic pressures that limit the duration of fieldwork? What should the role of language abilities be in this context and to what degree is it necessary to learn the language of the place ...
Mark Collins, Tukul Walla Kaiku
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Scientific people named in the classification of vasculitis
The first International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference was held in 1994. There have been suggestions about the nomenclature of systemic vasculitis.
Gokhan Sargin, Taskin Senturk
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ABSTRACT The ciliopathies are a group of genetic disorders caused by defective function of either the primary cilia (a large number) or the motile cilia (a much smaller number). These have been defined as diseases with mutations in genes encoding individual ciliary or cilia‐associated proteins.
Robert P. Erickson +1 more
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