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In 1874, Indian polymath physician Bhau Daji (1822–1874) passed away suddenly – and the details of his secretive ‘cure’ for leprosy died with him. Drawing on a collection of clinical photographs and illustrations at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP ...
Kristin D Hussey, Martha Biggins
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Adventures, hardship and a scientific legacy : Ludwig Leichhardt's 1843 journey to Mt Royal in the Hunter Valley, NSW [PDF]
In January 1843, curiosity for natural history led a young German naturalist, Ludwig Leichhardt, to spend about three weeks exploring Mt Royal on the north of the Hunter Valley, about 70 km north west of Newcastle, New South Wales.
Benson, Doug, Fallding, Martin
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Uncomfortable images produce non-sparse responses in a model of primary visual cortex [PDF]
The processing of visual information by the nervous system requires significant metabolic resources. To minimize the energy needed, our visual system appears to be optimized to encode typical natural images as efficiently as possible.
Hibbard, Paul B. +4 more
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Castanopsis corallocarpus (Fagaceae), a new species from Royal Belum (Perak) in Peninsular Malaysia [PDF]
A new species from the Fagaceae family, Castanopsis corallocarpus Tan & Strijk, is described from Royal Belum State Park in Peninsular Malaysia. Here, we provide technical illustrations, colour images and a description of its conservation status ...
Wei Harn Tan +2 more
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Royally represented or royally shafted? Effect of positive and negative captions and ideological beliefs on readers’ evaluations of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle [PDF]
We conducted a randomized controlled experiment to investigate the role of descriptive captions (positively and negatively worded) and ideological beliefs (Right Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation) on viewers’ evaluations of two ...
Anita A. Azeem +2 more
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This paper analyses the centralized fusion linear estimation problem in multi-sensor systems with multiple packet dropouts and correlated noises. Packet dropouts are modeled by independent Bernoulli distributed random variables. This problem is addressed
Rosa M. Fernández-Alcalá +3 more
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Jean Lesaulnier, Images de Port-Royal [PDF]
Il volume di Jean Lesaulnier completa e precisa il precedente, pubblicato nel 2002 con il titolo di Images de Port-Royal I, che ha inaugurato la collezione Univers Port-Royal delle edizioni Classiques Garnier.
Pavesio, Monica
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Cloud Perspectives (Royal Society Blog) [PDF]
A short research article on the Royal Society’s History of Science blog to celebrate the launch of ‘Painting with Sunlight: Ruskin and Science’, one of two digital exhibitions on Google Arts and Culture as part of the 2021 Summer Science Showcase, a week
Kemp, Sandra
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Size magnification as a complement to cosmic shear [PDF]
We investigate the extent to which cosmic size magnification may be used to complement cosmic shear in weak gravitational lensing surveys, with a view to obtaining high-precision estimates of cosmological parameters.
Barreiro, R. Belén +12 more
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Modern historiography has studied the influence of messianic and millennialist ideas in the Crown of Aragon extensively and, more particularly, how they were linked to the Aragonese monarchy.
Amadeo Serra Desfilis
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