Specialist Periodical Reports

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The demography of Sandwich in this period has attracted attention from previous historians but has not been systematically studied. This article goes some way towards rectifying this situation by tracing the town’s growth from c. 1,500–1,700 in the mid-sixteenth century to c. 5,500 by 1610, population growth ending during the 1630s after which decline set in, the 1671 Hearth Tax suggesting a po...

The Polanyi Society Periodical

A Periodical of Particle Physics

Out of hours multidetector computed tomography pulmonary angiography: are specialist resident reports reliable?

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES The purposes of this study were to assess the accuracy of trainee radiologists' reports for computed tomographic pulmonary angiographic (CTPA) imaging and to determine agreement or discrepancy with final verified consultant reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 100 consecutive out-of-hours CTPA examinations were prospectively analyzed. Fifty-one male and 49 female...

Life Cycle in Periodical Cicadas

-Several lines of evidence suggest that the 13-year life cycle is genetically dominant over the 17-year life cycle in periodical cicadas. They are: (1) 13-year dominance best predicts the decline of 17 -year Brood X, and concomitant increase in Brood XIX in the midwest, following a hypothesized 1868 hybridization with 13-year Brood XIX through assimilation of heterozygotes into Brood XIX; (2) t...