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The autonomic nervous system: Time for a conceptual reframing? [PDF]

J Physiol
Abstract figure legend The sympathetic, parasympathetic and enteric branches of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) are considered separate entities in the current model of the nervous system (A). We propose a simpler model that avoids the use of the term ‘the autonomic nervous system’ (B).
Barboi AC, Macefield VG.
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Reproductive patterns and birth rates in acute leukaemia survivors: A Danish population-based cohort study. [PDF]

Br J Haematol
Treatment‐related infertility is of great concern to younger long‐term survivors of acute leukaemia (AL). The literature on fertility outcomes in adult long‐term AL survivors is limited, mainly focused on stem cell transplantation or childhood leukaemia, with little information on the use of assisted reproduction technology.
Nielsen NN, Jensen JF, Øvlisen A, Zenas DR, Schöllkopf C, Toft N, Ørskov AD, Hansen DL, Mølle I, Kristensen DT, Severinsen MT.   +10 more
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

An empirical analysis of percentage tax designation to the catholic church and other social entities in Spain

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Since 2007, the Spanish State's contribution to funding the Catholic Church comes from what is known as the ‘tax allocation’ (asignación tributaria). It is a pure system of percentage tax designation consisting of 0.7% of the tax liability of taxpayers who decide to tick the relevant box on their personal income tax form.
Ángela Castillo‐Murciego, Julio López‐Laborda, Guillermo Peña   +2 more
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Does nature shape risk preferences? Evidence from Chile, Norway, and Tanzania

Economic Inquiry, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 568-590, April 2025.
Abstract Does exposure to a more risky environment affect risk preferences? Going beyond single‐case study evidence, we report results from five surveys conducted in three countries and link this with administrative data to study whether a link between exposure and preferences is detectable and widespread. We find no evidence for endogenous preferences
Florian Diekert, Robbert‐Jan Schaap
wiley   +1 more source

Points vs. passes: A comparison between electric fishing techniques for sampling fish populations in upland headwater streams

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Point‐abundance sampling by electric fishing (PASE) was compared with single‐pass (DF1) and triple‐pass depletion sampling (DF3) electric fishing on the same reaches of four headwater streams sampled over multiple years in the Ribble catchment, UK. Juvenile salmonids, mostly brown trout Salmo trutta with some Atlantic salmon S.
Reagan H. Pearce, Martin R. Perrow, Mark L. Tomlinson, Kirsty A. Turner   +3 more
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
wiley   +1 more source

A contact area function for Berkovich nanoindentation : Application to hardness determination of a TiHfCN thin film [PDF]

, 2014
In nanoindentation, especially at very low indenter displacements, the indenter/material contact area must be defined in the best possible way in order to accurately determine the mechanical properties of the material.
AUMAITRE, R., BOUSCARRAT, G., CHICOT, Didier, IOST, Alain, LOUIS, G., PUCHI-CABRERA, Eli-Saul, STAIA, M.H., YETNA N'JOCK, M.   +7 more
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Reading Dürer in Late Sixteenth‐Century Padua: Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582), His Library and the Annotated Institutionum geometricarum (Paris, 1535)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
wiley   +1 more source