Let me tell you at the outset of my appreciation of the great honour you have done me in asking me to deliver the first Lawson Wilkins Memorial Lecture. I accepted this invitation with eagerness because I cherish any link that binds Lawson Wilkins' life and work to mine. I often turn to the page in the second edition of his great textbook in which he proudly listed the 31 Associates and Fellows...

Abstract Institutional records suggest that the grounds for anxiety about insanity in late-nineteenth-century India were many and varied. Amongst other causes, one might have been rendered insane by sunstroke, fever, head injury, strong drink, inherited tendency, loss of money, grief, jealousy, anger, sexual excess, excessive joy, or (perhaps disturbingly) study.1 With such a panoply anxieties ...

Dvir, Maayan. M.S., Purdue University, August 2014. The Effect of Ostracism by Strangers on Romantic Relationship Evaluations. Major Professor: Kipling D. Williams. One behavioral consequence of ostracism is to seek and strengthen connections with others. The current research tests whether a brief episode of ostracism by strangers strengthens targeted individuals’ perceptions of their romantic ...

While this personal history is not readily apparent in the rest of work, preface prepares reader to confront subsequent subject matter as an abstract theoretical project but one with tangible consequences for real people and world. Just epidemiology strives create a horizontal picture disease-event attention region, timing, scale, so too does epidemiological reading situate disparate texts sing...

ammals exhibit a remarkable variety of coat patterns; the variety has elicited a comparable variety of explanations—many of them at the level of cogency that prevails in Rudyard Kipling's delightful "How the Leopard Got Its Spots." Although genes control the processes involved in coat pattern formation, the actual mechanisms that create the patterns are still not known. It would be attractive f...

Introduction: Interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) are composed of a variety of primitive materials and are the repositories of various isotopic anomalies. They are well known to exhibit enrichments of deuterium (D) and N [e.g., 1-3], although the two types of isotopic anomalies do not appear to be directly correlated. The enrichments are generally thought to be carried by organic compounds [4-...

It is generally accepted that tumour cells gain a selective advantage by deregulation of the cell cycle as a consequence of oncogene activation and tumour-suppressor gene inactivation (Weinberg, 1989; Hunter, 1991). There is also growing support for the idea that tumour cells may have defective mechanisms of programmed cell death (Wyllie, 1993). In addition, it has been suggested that the limit...