Re-appraisal of Nertera (Rubiaceae) in Taiwan

Re-appraisal of Terzaghi’s Soil Mechanics

In his recent biography of Terzaghi, Goodman (1999, p 213) has described Terzaghi and Peck's difficulties in writing 'Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice' which, published in (1948), quickly established itself as a main pillar of geotechnical education. He quotes a judgement they formed on Donald Taylor’s (1948) book ‘Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics’ as a ‘theoretical and esoteric portrayal o...

The Structure of Fedorite: a Re-appraisal

The crystal structures of fedorite from the type locality, the Turiy complex (Kola Peninsula, Russia) and the Little Murun complex (Sakha, Russia), have been refined from single crystals by CCD X-ray diffractometry. Both samples are triclinic, space group P1̄; fedorite from Turiy has a 9.6300(7), b 9.6392(7), c 12.6118(9) Å, 102.422(1), 96.227(1), 119.888(1)° [R1 = 4.87%], whereas that from Litt...

Herophilus and vivisection: a re-appraisal

The Role of Performance in the Stress Re-appraisal Process

Chronic stress, physiological and psychological, has been strongly associated with the onset of psychopathology, highlighting the importance of research investigating the experiences of stress. A current model of the stress process includes stress appraisal, stress reactivity, and performance in stressful situations. Past research has treated performance as a dependent variable in this model, b...

A re-appraisal of nunatak survival in arctic-alpine phylogeography.

A long standing and at times fervid debate in biogeography revolves around the question whether arctic and high alpine organisms survived Pleistocene ice ages on small island-like areas protruding above the ice-sheet, socalled nunataks, or whether they did so in peripheral nonglaciated refugial areas. A common picture emerging from a plethora of molecular phylogeographic studies in the last dec...