Genotyping microarrays are an important and widely-used tool in genetics. I present argyle, an R package for analysis of genotyping array data tailored to Illumina arrays. The goal of the argyle package is to provide simple, expressive tools for nonexpert users to perform quality checks and exploratory analyses of genotyping data. To these ends, the package consists of a suite of quality-contro...

Michael Argyle, who died aged 77 on September 6th, was one of the handful of British psychologists to have gained an international reputation. He was a pioneer in the scientific study of social behaviour. His research on interviews and conversations established that nonverbal rather than verbal communication dictate the impressions people make on others. So much is the primacy of ‘‘body languag...

This paper illustrates the malleable boundaries that define nature. Personal construct theory is employed to examine the apparent contradiction of the human/nature binary posed by landscapes generated by domesticated agriculture and physical and biological processes. Specifically, the paper reports on how tourists to the Kimberley region of Australia discriminate between their perception of hum...

BACKGROUND Reduction of atheroembolic complications during cardiopulmonary bypass remains a major challenge in cardiac surgery. New cannula tip designs may help to attenuate this problem by improved hydrodynamics. METHODS Pressure gradients and back pressures of a new aortic cannula tip design were measured and compared with the Medos X-Flow, Sarns Soft-Flow and Argyle THI cannulae at various...

The purpose of this investigation is the assesment of social competence in schizophrenics, neurotic depressives and normals. Social competence has been viewed according to the dimension given by Argyle (1969). Twenty subjects were studied in each group. The California Test of Personality was used to assess social competence in terms of personal and social adjustment. Extraversion and dominance ...