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Rectification of position data of Scotland in Ptolemy's Geographike Hyphegesis [PDF]
Survey Review (2014) 46: 231-244, 2015 The ancient geographic coordinates given for places of Great Britain in Ptolemy's Geographike Hyphegesis are investigated by means of geodetic methods. The turning of Scotland to the east is modelled by a three-dimensional rotation. On the basis of different data sets of control points, the parameters of the rotation are estimated by means of methods ...
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Recent adverse mortality trends in Scotland: comparison with other high-income countries
BMJ Open, 2019 Objective Gains in life expectancy have faltered in several high-income countries in recent years. Scotland has consistently had a lower life expectancy than many other high-income countries over the past 70 years.
L. Fenton +6 more
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EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCOTTISH BALLAD COLLECTORS AND THE ORAL TRADITION: SEEKING DURABILITY AND ACKNOWLEDGING TRANSIENCE [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2022 In contrast to their English predecessors, who had compiled their collections largely from printed texts and manuscripts, the Scottish ballad collectors of the early nineteenth derived their material principally from oral tradition.
James Christian Brown
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Genome Medicine, 2017 BackgroundThe Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS) is a family-based population cohort with DNA, biological samples, socio-demographic, psychological and clinical data from approximately 24,000 adult volunteers across Scotland ...
R. Nagy +24 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2012 Red wood ants are ecologically important members of woodland communities, and some species are of conservation concern. They occur commonly only in certain habitats in Britain, but there is limited knowledge of their numbers and distribution.
Kerry M. BORKIN +2 more
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A validation of the diathesis-stress model for depression in Generation Scotland
bioRxiv, 2018 Depression has well-established influences from genetic and environmental risk factors. This has led to the diathesis-stress theory, which assumes a multiplicative gene-by-environment interaction (GxE) effect on risk.
Aleix Arnau-Soler +9 more
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Gender budgeting in Scotland: A work in progress
Administration, 2017 After almost twenty years of devolved government in Scotland, during which gender analysis of the budget process has been advocated, this article explores the discursive framing of gender budgeting and progress towards implementation. Charting historical
O’Hagan Angela
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An Intraspeaker Variation Study of Scottish English /r/ Pharyngealisation
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Pharyngealisation— the retraction of the tongue towards the pharynx— of prepausal and preconsonantal /r/ has been recognised as an emergent strategy of derhoticisation in Scotland’s Central Belt (Stuart-Smith 2007).
Ruaridh Purse, Euan McGill
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Genome-wide meta-analyses of stratified depression in Generation Scotland and UK Biobank
bioRxiv, 2017 Few replicable genetic associations for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) have been identified. Recent studies of MDD have identified common risk variants by using a broader phenotype definition in very large samples, or by reducing phenotypic and ...
L. Hall +18 more
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Visualising and quantifying 'excess deaths' in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK and the rest of Western Europe [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Scotland has higher mortality rates than the rest of Western Europe (rWE), with more cardiovascular disease and cancer among older adults; and alcohol-related and drug-related deaths, suicide and violence among younger adults.
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