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(National Academy of Sciences, 2012-11)Habits tend to form slowly but, once formed, can have great stability. We probed these temporal characteristics of habitual behaviors by intervening optogenetically in forebrain habit circuits as rats performed well-ingrained ...
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(University of California Press, 2011-01)Goat Song is an American pastoral. It opens with the author, novelist Brad Kessler, moving away from society (New York City) and toward nature (a seventy-five-acre Vermont farm) and chronicles an experiment in agrarian ...
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(Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing), 2011-07)“Avowals” are utterances that “ascribe [current] states of mind”; for instance utterances of ‘I have a terrible headache’ and ‘I’m finding this painting utterly puzzling’ (Bar-On 2004: 1). And avowals, “when compared to ...
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Review of Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime (University of Chicago Press, 2010-12)The question at the heart of Victoria Johnson’s book is an intriguing one: how did the Paris Opera, or the Academie royale de musique as it was known during the Old Regime, avoid disbandment during the French Revolution? ...
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Review of Janick Auberger and Peter Keating. Histoire humaine des animaux de l'Antiquite a nos jours (University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society, 2011-03)One reason for the recent burgeoning of scholarly interest in other animals (that is, of interest outside disciplines like zoology and veterinary medicine where they have always held center stage) is their ubiquity. They ...
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(Berg Publishers, 2011-01)The natural history of the past can be tantalizingly elusive. At a remove of only a few hundred years, evidence that seems plentiful and accessible at first glance, turns out on closer examination to be opaque or (perhaps ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2010-02)Historians are every bit as likely as the next person to see the past as the reflection of the present. Thus the labour movement, the civil-rights movement, and the women's movement have all inspired historical subdisciplines. ...
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(Global Digital Central, 2011)Recent research progress in the area of nano/micro scale nucleate boiling is reviewed and an up-to-date summary is provided with a focus on the advances of fundamental boiling physics. This review examines nano/micro scale ...
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(European Geosciences Union., 2009-07)Recent field and laboratory evidence indicates that the oxidation of isoprene, (2-methyl-1,3-butadiene, C[subscript 5]H[subscript 8]) forms secondary organic aerosol (SOA). Global biogenic emissions of isoprene (600 Tg ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2010-10)In the Prelude to Matthen’s marvellous Seeing, Doing, and Knowing — ‘The New Philosophy of Vision’ — he welcomes a comparatively recent development in theorizing about perception. Vision (for example) is not now treated ...
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(Indiana University Press, 2011-09)In this disheartening chronicle, James C. Whorton fully justifies both his title and his subtitle. Of course arsenic was not a product of the nineteenth–century chemical imagination, as were, for example, aniline dyes and ...
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(University of Chicago Press, 2011-04)The title of P. M. Harman's sweeping survey strongly recalls that of Keith Thomas's pioneering Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500–1800 (1983). And in a sense, the two books treat the same topic, ...
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(University of Chicago Press, 2010-09)In Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life Mario Small illustrates the importance of organizations in producing network- based inequality. Small argues that organizations play an underapprec ...
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(Universite de Montreal, 2009-08)Pity the poor Fancy. This faculty has long been the most misunderstood, underestimated gift of poets. When Samuel Taylor Coleridge (in the Biographia) codified the role of fancy as mere handmaiden to the sublime powers of ...
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(University of California Press, 2010-06)Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xviii + 545. $45. Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman, eds., Science in the Marketplace: ...
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(Temple University, 2010-01)Mary Favret’s War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime is a brilliant, beautifully written book on the experience of war in British Romantic writing. Offering intricate close readings of Cowper, ...
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(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2012-04)Abstract The aim of this review paper is to summarize recent developments in the field of wearable sensors and systems that are relevant to the field of rehabilitation. The growing body of work focused on the application ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2011-06)Studies of mass political attitudes and behavior before the 1950s have been limited by a lack of high-quality, individual-level data. Fortunately, data from public opinion polls conducted during the late New Deal and World ...
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(Elsevier, 2009-03)We revisit the macroeconomic effects of government consumption in the neoclassical growth model when agents face uninsured idiosyncratic investment risk. Under complete markets, a permanent increase in government consumption ...
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(American Physical Society, 2010-07)Perturbative QCD results in the MS̅ scheme can be dramatically improved by switching to a scheme that accounts for the dominant power law dependence on the factorization scale in the operator product expansion. We introduce ...
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