A review of Chelsea Phillips’s Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800 , by Jennifer Buckley

This paper compares the robustness of information retrieval (IR) metrics to incomplete relevance assessments, using four different sets of graded-relevance test collections with submitted runs – two from TREC and two from NTCIR. We investigate the effect of reducing the original relevance data on discriminative power (i.e., how often statistical significance can be detected given the probabilit...

Contemporaries of Charles Darwin were divided on reconciling his theory of natural selection with religion and morality. Although Alfred Russel Wallace stands out as a spiritualist advocate of natural selection who rejected a natural origin of morality, the science popularizer and spiritualist Arabella Buckley (1840–1929) offers a more representative example of how theists, whether spiritualist...

Many studies in the last years showed that, for a wide variety of plants, stomata apertures exhibits spatial temporal patterns in a phenomena known as patchy stomatal conductance. Many attempts were made to build numerical models to explain this complex behavior, but none were able to explain all of behaviors observed in nature. In this work we discuss some limitations of an hydraulic cellular ...