THE NAME OF Thomas Garvine of Ayrshire was entered in the records of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow as a surgeon-freeman in 1738.1 He had been apprenticed to John Marshall (d. 1719), surgeon of Kilsyth, who was in charge of Glasgow University Physick Gardens in 1704. Probably Garvine served his apprenticeship in the early years of the eighteenth century, prior to his ac...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in the use of online platforms for Christian worship and emphasised need a simple psychometric instrument that is sufficiently general assess affect responses range services. This paper reports on development six-item Scale Perceived Affect Response Online Worship (SPAROW) during third UK lockdown 2021. scale items were included survey completed from Jan...

Recently, the premelting and formation of ice due to Casimir-Lifshitz interaction, proposed in early 1990s by Elbaum Schick [Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1713 (1991)], have been generalized diverse practical scenarios, yielding novel physical intuitions possibilities application for those phenomena. The properties materials, particular, electrical permittivity permeability, exert significant influence ...

In this article I will approach and try to clarify an unusual spelling (sumparao) which occurs in a text from the beginning of 18th century, attributed Antim Ivireanul. It is question Romanian translation, made after intermediate Greek version, distant French original. At same time, point out some questionable (or more than questionable) spellings, fragmentary modern edition respective text, pu...

Much recent criticism of Joseph Addison's Cato (1713) regards the tragedy as determinedly resistant to its eponymous protagonist's stoic heroism. Cato, it is argued, critiques Cato. But this wasn't how immediate contemporaries experienced play. For many commentators, was a model not only be applauded but also imitated. In essay, I take seriously disconnection between current interpretation and ...