Sir Maitland Mackie, A Lucky Chap: Orra Loon to Lord Lieutenant. Autobiography of Sir Maitland Mackie

Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882)

During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of evolutionary embryology [4], especially through his comparative embryological approach to uncovering ancestral relationships between groups. As developmental biologist and historian Brian Hall [5] has observed, the field of evolutionary embryology [4] in the ...

Robert Maitland Beath, B.A., M.B., F.F.R

Mackie Functionalist Socialization , Family and Character *

According to functionalism, the family internalizes and transmits society's supposed value consensus from one generation to the next, and such socialization explains morality, social order, and cultural uniformities. I present three investigations tha t challenge the concept of functionalist socialization, and propose alternative theories that may better explain observations. First, I present e...

Yes Sir, no Sir, not much difference Sir.

OBJECTIVE To assess whether making the sender's knighthood explicit in a series of letters would have any detectable effect on the response. DESIGN A random sequence was generated by flipping a coin to determine whether a letter would have 'Sir Iain Chalmers' or 'Iain Chalmers' typed under the signature. This sequence was prepared independently of the preparation of an alphabetic list of the ...

The effects of maitland orthopedic manual therapy on improving constipation

[Purpose] This study aimed to examine the effects of interventions on constipation and to provide basic data for physical therapy in internal medicine. [Subjects and Methods] The colon transit times of 30 subjects were measured and after the interventions. Fifteen subjects were assigned to a Maitland orthopedic manual therapy group, and 15 subjects were assigned to a dietary fiber group. [Resul...