Was There a Quiet Revolution? Belarus After the 2006 Presidential Election

NIECR - a quiet revolution.

Editorial NIECR-a quiet revolution. If someone was to ask you to consider important advances in medicine, perhaps like me, you would think of Fleming's discovery of penicillin in the 1940s or the introduction of the portable defibrillator by Pantridge and team in the 1960s. I wonder if you would include today's health gadgets like the Fitbit. Another, quieter gradual revolution is going on in N...

The quiet revolution

Sixty years have passed since Avery, MacLeod and McCarty published their landmark paper revealing DNA as the genetic material, writes Heather Dawes.

The Quiet Revolution

Reflections on the progress, prospects and problems of the voluntary service in mental health movement.

The Quiet Revolution

U.S. Presidential Election

In elections, political preferences are strongly linked to the expectations of the electoral winner—people usually expect their favorite candidate to win. This link could be driven by wishful thinking (a biasing influence of preferences), driven by a biasing influence of expectations on one’s wishes, or produced spuriously. To examine these competing possibilities in the 2008 U.S. presidential ...