This review essay, concerning three collections of Shils' essays published in 1997, focuses on Shils' assertion of the importance of charisma or the sacred in the ties that bind a secular society together and enable it to function as it does, asks why Shils did not accept Polanyi's views about intellectuals, and refers to aspects of the sacred attributed to universities and to our academic trad...

of Hebb's theory. Testing this theory would require one and Asif A. Ghazanfar to record from populations of neurons distributed across Department of Neurobiology multiple cortical areas and subcortical nuclei. Using a Duke University Medical Center chronic multiple-electrode recording preparation, Nico-Durham, North Carolina 27710 lelis and coworkers (1995, 1997a) recorded from populations of n...

Griffiths et al. (1997b) reported a 75-year-old man with a right hemisphere infarction which was supposedly causing misperception of sound-source movement and amusia. This contravenes Morgan’s Canon, that no behaviour should be explained in terms of higher psychological processes until simpler physiological or sensory mechanisms have been excluded. Griffiths et al. (1997a) described another pat...

Pesticide contamination of river and lake waters from agriculture use is a problem of worldwide importance. Many field data on the pesticide contamination of surface waters and aquatic organisms in rivers and lakes (Amaraneri & Pillala, 2001, Abdel-Halim et al., 2006; Agradi et al., 2000; California Environmental Protection Agency, 2002; California Regional Water Quality Control Board, 2002; Ca...

We have argued for the utility of a comparative developmental approach to exploring the relation between language diversity and thought (Lucy and Gaskins 2001). In this chapter, we elaborate the importance of taking a structure-centered approach to such comparative-developmental research (Lucy 1997a). A structure-centered approach begins with an analysis of language structure and then moves to ...

This document provides a comprehensive review of information and data relevant to the environmental risk assessment of Cry1Ac and presents a summary statement about the environmental safety of this protein. All sources of information reviewed herein were publically available and included: dossiers presented to regulatory authorities; decision summaries prepared by regulatory authorities; peer r...

No matter what you call them, cumulative trauma disorders, repetitive motion injuries or musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), softtissue injuries continue to be a major cause of loss in today’s workplace. In 1713, Ramazzini (trans. 1964) made one of the first published mentions of these types of injuries as “diseases of those who do fine work.” In 1917, Hamilton (1943) described a disorder called ...

It is the abundance of many aphids that makes them such serious pests. Therefore, it is important for aphid pest management to have a good understanding of their population dynamics both in terms of theory and practice. Although this aspect of aphid biology is well studied, there has been a lack of long-term studies of the population dynamics of aphids living on herbaceous plants, including cro...

of Hebb's theory. Testing this theory would require one and Asif A. Ghazanfar to record from populations of neurons distributed across Department of Neurobiology multiple cortical areas and subcortical nuclei. Using a Duke University Medical Center chronic multiple-electrode recording preparation, Nico-Durham, North Carolina 27710 lelis and coworkers (1995, 1997a) recorded from populations of n...

The state of the art of the infertility workup, strange as it may appear, has never been accurately defined. A recent survey, that was designed to determine how reproductive endocrinologists practice on a daily basis, demonstrated that the five basic tests that were regarded as the cornerstone of the infertility evaluation were: semen analysis, assessment of ovulation, hysterosalpingogram (HSG)...