There is significant evidence of variation in the penalties awarded in cases of plagiarism across the higher education sector, which has led to calls for standardisation of treatment. In this context, the annual reports of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA) in the UK have identified increases in the numbers of complaints pertaining to judgements of academic mis...

The appearance, after colchicine treatment, of cells containing large numbers of micronuclei also called chromosome-vesicles, idiomeres, karyo meres—has been observed by several authors in different biological materials. Brues and Jackson ( @) foundtheminregenerating rat liverandinter preted their formation to be due to the swelling of the individual chromosomes after mitosis has been arreste...

The first observations that the alkaloid colchicine affected the growth of neoplastic tissue were made by Dominici.7 He stated that patients with gout and cancer who were receiving colchicine showed a remarkable improvement in health. Amoroso' also noted similar beneficial effects in gouty patients with cancer. He reported complete retrogression of grafted tumors in mice which had received repe...

Concannon, Patrick W., V. Daniel Castracane, Richard E. Rawson, and Bud C. Tennant. Circannual changes in free thyroxine, prolactin, testes, and relative food intake in woodchucks, Marmota monax. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1401–R1409, 1999.— Woodchucks (n 5 12–14/group) with circannual cycles entrained to northern versus southern hemisphere photoperiods wer...

Graphic symbols for heart sounds and murmurs first appeared in 1861 in an article entitled A Short Account of Cardiac Murmurs, by William Tennant Gairdner. Laennec (1837), who first explored auscultation as a clinical diagnostic method, discovered a vast number of new facts which called for precise description. With faith in the rich vocabulary of his native language, aided by his good knowledg...

The electrostatic behavior of potentially titrating groups in reduced human thioredoxin was investigated using two-dimensional (2D) 1H and 15N nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. A total of 241 chemical shift titration curves were measured over the pH range of 2.1-10.6 from homonuclear 1H-1H Hartmann-Hahn (HOHAHA) and heteronuclear 1H-15N Overbodenhausen correlation spectra. Nonlinea...

A goal of human factors research with computer systems is to develop human-computer communication modes that are both error tolerant and easily learned. Since people already have extensive communication skills through their own native or natural language (e.g. English, French, Japanese, etc.) many believe that natural language interfaces (NLIs) can provide the most useful and efficient way for ...

Since the pioneering works of Tennant and Wiggers, it has been known that total ischaemia leads to a prompt cessation of contraction and eventually results in the appearance of cell damage and irreversible myocardial necrosis. Accordingly, in the minds of many cardiologists, the discovery of an abnormal regional contraction in a patient with coronary artery disease had long been equated with th...

By means of ‘means that’ and propositional quantification, we can define a truth predicate. This also allows the construction of liar sentences, either by self-reference or by means of quantification. In order to avoid inconsistency, restrictions on expressive power must be imposed, and the question is how far such restrictions will limit our ability to say of what is intuitively described as ‘...

A major route of transmission of Visna/maedi virus (VMV), an ovine lentivirus, is thought to be via the respiratory tract, by inhalation of either cell-free or cell-associated virus. In previous studies, we have shown that infection via the lower respiratory tract is much more efficient than via upper respiratory tissues (T. N. McNeilly, P. Tennant, L. Lujan, M. Perez, and G. D. Harkiss, J. Gen...