Uniting Form with Contingency: Female Characters’ Self-Liberation in Iris Murdoch’s Novel

Key characters uniting hemichordates and chordates: homologies or homoplasies?1

Four chordate characters — dorsal hollow nerve cord, notochord, gill slits, and endostyle — are compared morphologically, molecularly, and functionally with similar structures in hemichordates to assess their putative homologies. The dorsal hollow nerve cord and enteropneust neurocord are probably homoplasies. The neurocord (= collar cord) may be an autapomorphy of Enteropneusta that innervates...

Novel Approach of Accurate Iris Localisation Form High Resolution Eye Images Suitable for Fake Iris Detection

High resolution images not only provide high recognition rate but also useful in safeguarding the iris recognition system from fake iris attack. To safeguard the iris recognition system against fake irises, one of the very popular technique is to detect the change in pupil size due to change in illumination. Many of existing methods assume that iris and pupil are circular or elliptical in natur...

Reflection in work-based learning: self-regulation or self-liberation?

Uniting the tribes of fluency to form a metacognitive nation.

Processing fluency, or the subjective experience of ease with which people process information, reliably influences people's judgments across a broad range of social dimensions. Experimenters have manipulated processing fluency using a vast array of techniques, which, despite their diversity, produce remarkably similar judgmental consequences. For example, people similarly judge stimuli that ar...

Iris mammillations in two female siblings with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

Iris mammillations are dark brown, smooth, mound- or dome-shaped protuberances that are typically found on the anterior iris surface and are presumed to be congenital in origin. This congenital anomaly is usually unilateral and can be hereditary or sporadic. Lisch nodules in neurofibromatosis, tapioca melanoma of the iris, inflammatory iris granulomata and Cogan-Reese syndrome should be conside...