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The TOSCA Case
Considering the rapid pace of global urbanization especially in emerging economies of the global South, this article addresses governance approaches for the sustainable development of cities which seek to transform into smart...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
At War with Zola
Nicholas White
Jul 24, 2015
This lecture was presented at the 13th Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes by Nicholas White (University of Cambridge). © 2015 Nicholas White.
Marine phosphate availability and the chemical origins of life on Earth.
Prebiotic systems chemistry suggests that high phosphate concentrations were necessary to synthesise molecular building blocks and sustain primitive cellular systems. However, current understanding of mineral solubility predicts...
Marine phosphate availability and the chemical origins of life on Earth.
Prebiotic systems chemistry suggests that high phosphate concentrations were necessary to synthesise molecular building blocks and sustain primitive cellular systems. However, current understanding of mineral solubility predicts...
Observational constraints on the process and products of Martian serpentinization.
The alteration of olivine-rich rocks to serpentine minerals, (hydr)oxides, and aqueous hydrogen through serpentinization is long thought to have influenced the distribution of habitable environments on early Mars and the...
Published by: Science advances
Marine siliceous ecosystem decline led to sustained anomalous Early Triassic warmth.
Terry T Isson, Shuang Zhang, Kimberly V Lau, Sofia Rauzi, Nicholas J Tosca, Donald E Penman, Noah J Planavsky
Jun 18, 2022
In the wake of rapid CO2 release tied to the emplacement of the Siberian Traps, elevated temperatures were maintained for over five million years during the end-Permian biotic crisis. This protracted recovery defies our current...
Marine siliceous ecosystem decline led to sustained anomalous Early Triassic warmth.
Terry T Isson, Shuang Zhang, Kimberly V Lau, Sofia Rauzi, Nicholas J Tosca, Donald E Penman, Noah J Planavsky
Jul 19, 2022
In the wake of rapid CO2 release tied to the emplacement of the Siberian Traps, elevated temperatures were maintained for over five million years during the end-Permian biotic crisis. This protracted recovery defies our current...
Non-invasive technical investigation of english portrait miniatures attributed to Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver
This study presents the results of the technical investigation carried out on several English portrait miniatures painted in the 16th and 17th century by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, two of the most famous limners...
Film Music <i>avant la lettre</i>? Disentangling Film from Opera in Italy, c. 1913
Marco Ladd
Feb 13, 2020
An Italian city with a history stretching back to antiquity, soaring orchestral music, and a singer named Tosca: this is what awaited the audience in Florence’s Teatro Verdi on the evening of October 23, as the city’s largest...
From Anonymous to Identifiable
Alicia Tosca
Jan 01, 0001
A poem
Winthrop Anthology Creative Writing art poetry prose writing Magazine Literary Magazine Creative Writing poetry
Published by: Winthrop University
Usurped
Alicia Tosca
Jan 01, 0001
A prose story
Winthrop Anthology Creative Writing art poetry prose writing Magazine Literary Magazine Creative Writing Nonfiction
Published by: Winthrop University
The New Capital of Spanish Language Literature
This translation was originally published as:
“The New Capital of Spanish Language Literature: The Best Seller.” New Spain New Literatures, by Maarten Steenmeijer. Eds. Luis Martín Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Vanderbilt...
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
The New Capital of Spanish Language Literature
This translation was originally published as:
“The New Capital of Spanish Language Literature: The Best Seller.” New Spain New Literatures, by Maarten Steenmeijer. Eds. Luis Martín Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Vanderbilt...
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
The New Capital of Spanish Language Literature
This translation was originally published as:
“The New Capital of Spanish Language Literature: The Best Seller.” New Spain New Literatures, by Maarten Steenmeijer. Eds. Luis Martín Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Vanderbilt...
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Sphaerosiderites as sensitive recorders of non-marine depositional and diagenetic history
Abstract: Waterlogged, reducing soils in modern and ancient wetlands feature distinctive syndepositional to early diagenetic spherical iron carbonate concretions, known as sphaerosiderites. Sphaerosiderites are thought to record...
Review of the Book "Understanding Liberal Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy"
Kelly Sorensen
Jan 01, 0001
[Excerpt] Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that public reason liberalism is a dead end, and defends instead what he takes to be a more defensible form of liberalism ("equal political voice liberalism"). His book is fresh and...
Nicholas Wolterstorff Terence Cuneo Oxford University Press political philosophy public reason liberalism Essays liberal democracy Rights equal political voice liberalism Ethics and Political Philosophy Philosophy
Published by: Ursinus College
Mass and Heat Exchange in Rotating Compressor Cavities With Variable Cob Separation
Next generation aeroengines will operate at ever-increasing pressure ratios with smaller cores, where the control of blade-tip clearances across the flight cycle is an emerging design challenge. Such clearances are affected by...
Social Identity Theory in Sports Fandom Research
Nicholas Hirshon
May 08, 2020
Sports fans are known to engage in BIRGing, or basking in reflected glory after their team wins, and CORFing, cutting off reflected failure following a team loss. These phenomena are related to social identity theory, which...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Effect of high-dose simvastatin on cognitive, neuropsychiatric, and health-related quality-of-life measures in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis
D Chan, S Binks, JM Nicholas, C Frost, MJ Cardoso, S Ourselin, D Wilkie, R Nicholas, J Chataway
Jun 27, 2017
A Model of Mass and Heat Transfer for Disc Temperature Prediction in Open Compressor Cavities
Accurate prediction of heat transfer in compressor cavities is crucial to the design of efficient and reliable aircraft engines. The heat transfer affects the thermal expansion of the compressor rotor and, in turn, the tip...
Haploinsufficiency of NKX2-1 in Brain-Lung-Thyroid Syndrome with Additional Multiple Pituitary Dysfunction.
INTRODUCTION: Heterozygous mutations or haploinsufficiency of NKX2-1 are associated with the brain-lung-thyroid syndrome incorporating primary hypothyroidism, respiratory distress, and neurological disturbances. CASE...
Early life programming in mice by maternal overnutrition
Animal models have been indispensable in elucidating the potential causative mechanisms underlying the effects of maternal diet on offspring health. Of these, the mouse has been widely used to model maternal overnutrition and/or...
The Clinical and Public Health Challenges of Diabetes Prevention
In an Editorial accompanying PLOS Medicine's Special Issue on Diabetes Prevention, Guest Editors Nicholas Wareham and William Herman discuss some of the challenges for researchers and policy makers in developing effective and...
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