Historically, Jean-Siméon Chardin’s The Kitchen Maid and Return from the Market have been characterized as austere images of middle-class virtue. However, engravings made after these paintings include verses that place within satirical tradition. Thus, there is a misalignment between canonical interpretation kitchen maids virtuous understanding paintings. I reconcile two contradictory interpret...

A study of those survivors weighing 2000 g or less at birth born to residents of the South East Thames Regional Health Authority in 1970, '71, and '73 was carried out by abstracting data from health visitors' and school health records. Some postnatal information was available for 78% of the children. Prevalences of reported impairments in relation to birthweight were 20% in babies of 1500 g or ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the number of Latino dentists in California, identify the schools and countries where they were educated, and compare Latino dentist demographics with that of the state's new demographics. From the 2000 California Department of Consumer Affairs list of 25,273 dentists, we identified Latino U.S. dental graduates (USDGs) by "heavily Hispanic" surnames an...

The global warming hiatus during the first decade of 21st century has posed a challenge to scientific community, though leading explanation is that it was caused by internal variability overlaying forced trend. Here, we apply Winton-Held two-layer model and show probability observed 2000–2012 period arise from driven white noise larger if climate sensitivity low. This due delayed response ocean...