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Blue plaque review series: Thomas Graham Brown: Before his time
Abstract Thomas Graham Brown made a seminal discovery, published in 1911 while he was a Carnegie Fellow in the University of Liverpool laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Charles S. Sherrington. Working in cats, he showed that rhythmic ‘voluntary’ behaviour, such as stepping and, by inference, walking, does not result from a chain of reflex events, but ...
Ronald L. Calabrese, Eve Marder
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From Brussels to Mashhad, Professor Roch (Abdullah) Boulvin (1912‒1969), Accelerator of Progression of Modern Surgery in Northeastern Iran. [PDF]
Emadzadeh A +3 more
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Séminaire “Mémoires d’Indochine” 2016 : Séance 5
Année universitaire 2016-2017 / Master Asie Orientale Contemporaine (ASIOC) / Semestre 1 ENS de Lyon / Sciences Po Lyon Mémoires d’Indochine : Imaginaires nationaux : de l’empire colonial aux états-nations d’aujourd’hui Portrait du Prince Phetsarath ...
indomemoires
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Revisiting the death of Louis XIV: a nephrological perspective. [PDF]
Bataille S, Charlier P.
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ABSTRACT Despite calls for writing reform over the past two decades, few of the recommendations from this work have made their way into high school classrooms in the United States where concerns about the paucity and quality of writing instruction remain.
Mellinee Lesley
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Painting psychosis: an empirical investigation of the self-portraits of Edvard Munch. [PDF]
Bettelheim EC +3 more
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Red Lines in the Ocean: Sea Routes on Early Modern East Asian Maps. [PDF]
Papelitzky E.
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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