This article examines the lived experiences of teachers who were either lay volunteers or Sister missionaries, working in education and health care. The research draws on oral histories, examining responses participants under a series thematic headings that unpack influence family life, schooling faith, while also exploring experience ‘in field’. attempts to compare women with Sisters (also som...

Despite the diversity of mammalian life histories, persistent patterns of covariation have been identified, such as the 'fast-slow' axis of life-history covariation. Smaller species generally exhibit 'faster' life histories, developing and reproducing rapidly, but dying young. Hormonal mechanisms with pleiotropic effects may mediate such broad patterns of life-history variation. Insulin-like gr...

We attempt a justification of a generalisation of the consistent histories programme using a notion of probability that is valid for all complete sets of history propositions. This consists of introducing Cox’s axioms of probability theory and showing that our candidate notion of probability obeys them. We also give a generalisation of Bayes’ theorem and comment upon how Bayesianism should be u...