Mark O'Neill The new St Pancras CTRL (Channel Tunnel Rail Link) station consists of nine platforms, six for international Eurostar trains and three for regional domestic services from Kent (there are four platforms for the Midland Main Line but there is no through running between the CTRL and Network Rail parts of the station). Trains approaching St Pancras leave the single bore London Tunnels ...

The authors regret a spelling mistake in the surname of one of authors. The surname given as ‘Vasilev’ should be ‘Vasiliev’. Furthermore a second affiliation for the author A. D. Vasiliev was inadvertently omitted. The correct spelling and affiliations of all the authors for this paper is as shown above. The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience...

Using administrative records from the Social Security Administration this article explores the relationship between surname frequency and lifespan for over 19 million people born in 1910-19 and deceased by 2011—which represent over 80% of the total population born in 191019. People with more frequent surnames had shorter average and median lifespans. Differences in average lifespan between the ...

Hereditary surnames contain information about relatedness within populations. They have been used as crude indicators of population structure and migration events, and to subdivide samples for epidemiological purposes. In societies that use patrilineal surnames, a surname should correlate with a type of Y chromosome, provided certain assumptions are met. Recent studies involving Y-chromosomal h...

This report concerns a study which was conducted for SKB. The conclusions and viewpoints presented in the report are those of the author and do not necessarily coincide with those of the client. Preface This document contains information on the Weichselian glacial history, specifically of conditions during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3, the period preceding the Last Glacial Maximum. The informat...

AIMS To investigate anecdotal evidence that the name "Shufflebottom" originates from the dominantly inherited characteristic of bottom shuffling. METHODS A questionnaire based retrospective study to determine the incidence of bottom shuffling and age of first walking among those named "Shufflebottom" and a control population, of those named "Walker". RESULTS There was no statistically signi...

This paper reports the ethno-medicinal uses of 30 plants by the Paroja tribes of Koraput, Odisha. All the plants were enumerated with botanical name, family name, local name, short description of the plant and information on ethnic use.