Ninth Century Syriac Exegete and Apologist: Moshe bar Kepha’s Commentary on Luke

Commentary: Raising the bar on telomere epidemiology.

Ehrlenbach and co-workers report, in this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology, findings of a longitudinal, population-based study in 510 individuals. They observed that individuals who died during a 10-year follow-up had shorter relative telomere length (RTL), measured by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), than those who survived. They also confirmed from the previous...

Vocabularies of Grief and Consolation in Ninth-Century Francia

Commentary: A century of Mendelism: on Johannsen's genotype conception.

Herbert Spencer, ‘pangenes’ of de Vries and ‘bioblasts’ of Richard Altmann had been widely considered. The most elaborate 19th century theory of heredity and development was that of August Weismann who postulated the existence of a hierarchy of determinants, organized in chromosomes, which would segregate out of the cell nucleus in the course of development and determine cell types. Weismann’s ...

a head parameter survey on mazandarani dialect and its effect(s) on learning english from ca perspective (on the basis of x-bar syntax)1

there has been a gradual shift of focus from the study of rule systems, which have increasingly been regarded as impoverished, … to the study of systems of principles, which appear to occupy a much more central position in determining the character and variety of possible human languages. there is a set of absolute universals, notions and principles existing in ug which do not vary from one ...

Commentary: Ethics and law at the bar and on the couch.

Drs. Kachigian and Felthous have vividly highlighted the disarray of current duty-to-warn law—a thorough mess, in my opinion, and steadily growing worse,—to the detriment of psychiatric care and hence possibly generating increased, not diminished, patient violence. Only to underscore the law’s confusion, not to embark on a pointless quibble, I confess that I interpret some of the state statutes...