Five and a half decades ago, when Stith Thompson was the doyen of American folklore studies, he published his essay “The Challenge Folklore” in PMLA, leading journal Humanities (Thompson 1964) [...]

Iron bioavailabilities and antioxidant activities of 3 generic raisin types—Golden Thompson, Dipped Thompson, and Sun-dried Thompson—were quantified and compared. Iron bioavailability was assessed with an in vitro digestion/Caco-2 cell culture model using cell ferritin formation as an index of iron bioavailability. Antioxidant activity was determined using the total oxyradical-scavenging capaci...

Yawning is a scientific conundrum that has baffled scientists for decades. Whilst the origin and mechanism of yawning may be understood, its presence and frequency in a number of neurological disorders is not clearly understood. The Thompson Cortisol Hypothesis (2011) proposes a link between yawning and blood cortisol levels because of the known association between cortisol (and its elevation i...

Statistical methods based on ranking are known to be versatile and powerful techniques. Nonparametric rank tests for two-way analysis of variance have been studied by several authors, for example: rank transform (RT ) proposed by Conover and Iman (1981); asymptotic theory of RT discussed by Hora and Conover (1984), Akritas (1990) and Thompson and Ammann (1990). McKean and Vidman (1994) suggeste...

inverse sampling design is generally considered to be appropriate technique when the population is divided into two subpopulations, one of which contains only few units. in this paper, we derive the horvitz-thompson estimator for the population mean under inverse sampling designs, where subpopulation sizes are known. we then introduce an alternative unbiased estimator, corresponding to post-str...