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A rich man and a woman who has visited him for tea gossip about an impoverished gentleman's daughter who is present in his house as a governess: the visitor looks at the governess with a supercilious expression. Engraving by R. Hatfield, 1842, after R

London (No. 4, Hanover Street) : Published ... for the proprietor by T.G. March ; [London] (Threadneedle Street) : Sold also by F. G. Moon ; [London] (Strand) : [Sold also by] Ackermann & Co., April 10, 1842 ([London?] : Printed by R. Lloyd)




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Libro del perchè.

Bologna : Ugo Rugerius, 4 Mar. 1497.




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The drunken Hercules. Photograph by J. Mudd after E.J. Hähnel.

[Manchester] : [James Mudd], [18--]




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Conquering fat logic : how to overcome what we tell oursleves about diets, weight, and metabolism / Nadja Hermann.

London : Scribe, 2019.




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A skull placed on some old books, a Venetian drinking glass, playing cards, a cigarette stub, and six coins. Watercolour.




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A lion that has escaped from a circus in Florence picks up a baby in its teeth, but when the baby's mother shouts at it, the lion gives the baby back to the mother unharmed. Watercolour by M. Díez de Bulnes, 1817, after N.A. Monsiau.

[Spain?], An. 1817.




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Grotesque ornament. Engravings by or after J. Androuet du Cerceau.

[Paris?] : [J. Androuet du Cerceau?], [1562?]




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Baiae (Baia), Italy: the dome of the part-submerged "temple of Mercury", containing the frigidarium of a public bath. Etching by C. Guttenberg, 178-, after H. Robert.

[Paris] : [de l'Imprimerie de Clousier], [between 1780 and 1789]




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A fight between two men is interrupted by a woman representing mercy, pleading on behalf of the losing party. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1848, after W. Etty.

London (5 Haymarket) : Published ... by J. Hogarth, June 1 1849.




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Acts of mercy : the Middlesex Hospital paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson (1862-1927) / [text by William Schupbach].

[London] : [Wellcome Trust], [2009]




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The dynastic marriage of William of Orange and Mary Stuart: above, they are brought together before a bust of Hercules; below, their wedding in London on 4 November 1677. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1678.

[The Netherlands] : [Romeyn de Hooghe?], [1678?]




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Anti-tuberculosis measures in England / F. J. H. Coutts.

England : Society of Medical Officers of Health, [192-?]




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Tuberculosis statistics : summary of the report / addressed by Dr. S. Rosenfeld (Vienna) to the Health Committee of the Leage of Nations.

England : League of Nations, 1925.




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Medizin ist Wandel : das Gedankengebäude der chinesischen Medizin richtig verstehen / Andrea-Mercedes Riegel.

Baden-Baden : DWV, Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2019.




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Addict aftercare : recovery training and self-help / Fred Zackon, William E. McAuliffe, James M.N. Ch'ien.




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Addicted women : family dynamics, self perceptions, and support systems.

Rockville, Maryland : National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1979.




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Detroit Mercy hires Gilbert as women's basketball coach

DETROIT (AP) -- Detroit Mercy hired AnnMarie Gilbert as women’s basketball coach.




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Oriented first passage percolation in the mean field limit

Nicola Kistler, Adrien Schertzer, Marius A. Schmidt.

Source: Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, Volume 34, Number 2, 414--425.

Abstract:
The Poisson clumping heuristic has lead Aldous to conjecture the value of the oriented first passage percolation on the hypercube in the limit of large dimensions. Aldous’ conjecture has been rigorously confirmed by Fill and Pemantle ( Ann. Appl. Probab. 3 (1993) 593–629) by means of a variance reduction trick. We present here a streamlined and, we believe, more natural proof based on ideas emerged in the study of Derrida’s random energy models.




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Unions of random walk and percolation on infinite graphs

Kazuki Okamura.

Source: Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, Volume 33, Number 3, 586--637.

Abstract:
We consider a random object that is associated with both random walks and random media, specifically, the superposition of a configuration of subcritical Bernoulli percolation on an infinite connected graph and the trace of the simple random walk on the same graph. We investigate asymptotics for the number of vertices of the enlargement of the trace of the walk until a fixed time, when the time tends to infinity. This process is more highly self-interacting than the range of random walk, which yields difficulties. We show a law of large numbers on vertex-transitive transient graphs. We compare the process on a vertex-transitive graph with the process on a finitely modified graph of the original vertex-transitive graph and show their behaviors are similar. We show that the process fluctuates almost surely on a certain non-vertex-transitive graph. On the two-dimensional integer lattice, by investigating the size of the boundary of the trace, we give an estimate for variances of the process implying a law of large numbers. We give an example of a graph with unbounded degrees on which the process behaves in a singular manner. As by-products, some results for the range and the boundary, which will be of independent interest, are obtained.




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A temporal perspective on the rate of convergence in first-passage percolation under a moment condition

Daniel Ahlberg.

Source: Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, Volume 33, Number 2, 397--401.

Abstract:
We study the rate of convergence in the celebrated Shape Theorem in first-passage percolation, obtaining the precise asymptotic rate of decay for the probability of linear order deviations under a moment condition. Our results are presented from a temporal perspective and complement previous work by the same author, in which the rate of convergence was studied from the standard spatial perspective.




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Tissue engineering : principles, protocols, and practical exercises

9783030396985




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Commercial status of plant breeding in India

Tiwari, Aparna, author.
9789811519062




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The Mercer story and Amy's story / by Amy Moore ; with Ray Moore.

Moore, Amy, 1908-2005.




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Merci de ne pas fumer / Biman Mullick.

London : Cleanair, [1988?]




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The Joyful Reduction of Uncertainty: Music Perception as a Window to Predictive Neuronal Processing




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Physical Exercise Prevents Stress-Induced Activation of Granule Neurons and Enhances Local Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Dentate Gyrus

Timothy J. Schoenfeld
May 1, 2013; 33:7770-7777
BehavioralSystemsCognitive




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The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception

Nancy Kanwisher
Jun 1, 1997; 17:4302-4311
Articles




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The Phase of Ongoing EEG Oscillations Predicts Visual Perception

Niko A. Busch
Jun 17, 2009; 29:7869-7876
BehavioralSystemsCognitive




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A selective impairment of motion perception following lesions of the middle temporal visual area (MT)

WT Newsome
Jun 1, 1988; 8:2201-2211
Articles




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The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception

Nancy Kanwisher
Jun 1, 1997; 17:4302-4311
Articles




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Rassegna trimestrale BRI dicembre 2017: Un paradossale inasprimento ci riporta all'enigma del mercato obbligazionario

Italian translation of the BIS press release about the BIS Quarterly Review, December 2017




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Rassegna trimestrale BRI marzo 2018: La volatilità ritorna sulla scena in seguito alle tensioni dei mercati azionari

Italian translation of the BIS press release about the BIS Quarterly Review, March 2018




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Le divergenze tra i mercati si ampliano: Rassegna trimestrale BRI

Italian translation of the BIS press release about the BIS Quarterly Review, September 2018




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Calo e ripresa dei mercati: Rassegna trimestrale BRI

Italian translation of the BIS press release about the BIS Quarterly Review, March 2019




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Informe Trimestral del BPI, marzo de 2018: La volatilidad vuelve a cobrar protagonismo tras un episodio de inestabilidad en los mercados bursátiles

Spanish translation of the BIS press release about the BIS Quarterly Review, March 2018




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Nuevos miembros del Comité de Pagos e Infraestructuras del Mercado

Spanish version of Press release about new members joining the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (19 March 2018)




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Preguntas frecuentes sobre requerimientos de capital por riesgo de mercado

Spanish translation of "Frequently asked questions on market risk capital requirements" by the Basel Committee, March 2018.




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Las divergencias se amplían en los mercados: Informe Trimestral del BPI

Spanish translation of the BIS press release about the BIS Quarterly Review, September 2018




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Requisitos de divulgación para el Tercer Pilar - Macro actualizado

Spanish translation of "Pillar 3 disclosure requirements - updated framework", December 2018




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El Informe Trimestral del BPI analiza la caída y posterior rebote de los mercados

Spanish translation of the BIS press release about the BIS Quarterly Review, March 2019




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Merchants Now Can List Products on Google Shopping for Free

Merchants soon will be able to sell products on Google Shopping at no charge. Previously, they had to pay per click, but the cost was not fixed. There was no minimum, but they had to set a maximum for ad spend and Google would stop displaying their ads once the maximum was reached. Starting next week, search results on the Google Shopping tab will consist primarily of free product listings.




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Walker Percy: A Documentary Film




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Alpha Activity Reflects the Magnitude of an Individual Bias in Human Perception

Biases in sensory perception can arise from both experimental manipulations and personal trait-like features. These idiosyncratic biases and their neural underpinnings are often overlooked in studies on the physiology underlying perception. A potential candidate mechanism reflecting such idiosyncratic biases could be spontaneous alpha band activity, a prominent brain rhythm known to influence perceptual reports in general. Using a temporal order judgment task, we here tested the hypothesis that alpha power reflects the overcoming of an idiosyncratic bias. Importantly, to understand the interplay between idiosyncratic biases and contextual (temporary) biases induced by experimental manipulations, we quantified this relation before and after temporal recalibration. Using EEG recordings in human participants (male and female), we find that prestimulus frontal alpha power correlates with the tendency to respond relative to an own idiosyncratic bias, with stronger α leading to responses matching the bias. In contrast, alpha power does not predict response correctness. These results also hold after temporal recalibration and are specific to the alpha band, suggesting that alpha band activity reflects, directly or indirectly, processes that help to overcome an individual's momentary bias in perception. We propose that combined with established roles of parietal α in the encoding of sensory information frontal α reflects complementary mechanisms influencing perceptual decisions.

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The brain is a biased organ, frequently generating systematically distorted percepts of the world, leading each of us to evolve in our own subjective reality. However, such biases are often overlooked or considered noise when studying the neural mechanisms underlying perception. We show that spontaneous alpha band activity predicts the degree of biasedness of human choices in a time perception task, suggesting that alpha activity indexes processes needed to overcome an individual's idiosyncratic bias. This result provides a window onto the neural underpinnings of subjective perception, and offers the possibility to quantify or manipulate such priors in future studies.




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An Amygdalo-Parabrachial Pathway Regulates Pain Perception and Chronic Pain

The parabrachial (PB) complex mediates both ascending nociceptive signaling and descending pain modulatory information in the affective/emotional pain pathway. We have recently reported that chronic pain is associated with amplified activity of PB neurons in a rat model of neuropathic pain. Here we demonstrate that similar activity amplification occurs in mice, and that this is related to suppressed inhibition to lateral parabrachial (LPB) neurons from the CeA in animals of either sex. Animals with pain after chronic constriction injury of the infraorbital nerve (CCI-Pain) displayed higher spontaneous and evoked activity in PB neurons, and a dramatic increase in after-discharges, responses that far outlast the stimulus, compared with controls. LPB neurons in CCI-Pain animals showed a reduction in inhibitory, GABAergic inputs. We show that, in both rats and mice, LPB contains few GABAergic neurons, and that most of its GABAergic inputs arise from CeA. These CeA GABA neurons express dynorphin, somatostatin, and/or corticotropin releasing hormone. We find that the efficacy of this CeA-LPB pathway is suppressed in chronic pain. Further, optogenetically stimulating this pathway suppresses acute pain, and inhibiting it, in naive animals, evokes pain behaviors. These findings demonstrate that the CeA-LPB pathway is critically involved in pain regulation, and in the pathogenesis of chronic pain.

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT We describe a novel pathway, consisting of inhibition by dynorphin, somatostatin, and corticotropin-releasing hormone-expressing neurons in the CeA that project to the parabrachial nucleus. We show that this pathway regulates the activity of pain-related neurons in parabrachial nucleus, and that, in chronic pain, this inhibitory pathway is suppressed, and that this suppression is causally related to pain perception. We propose that this amygdalo-parabrachial pathway is a key regulator of both chronic and acute pain, and a novel target for pain relief.




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A Causal Role for Mouse Superior Colliculus in Visual Perceptual Decision-Making

The superior colliculus (SC) is arguably the most important visual structure in the mouse brain and is well known for its involvement in innate responses to visual threats and prey items. In other species, the SC plays a central role in voluntary as well as innate visual functions, including crucial contributions to selective attention and perceptual decision-making. In the mouse, the possible role of the SC in voluntary visual choice behaviors has not been established. Here, we demonstrate that the mouse SC of both sexes plays a causal role in visual perceptual decision-making by transiently inhibiting SC activity during an orientation change detection task. First, unilateral SC inhibition-induced spatially specific deficits in detection. Hit rates were reduced, and reaction times increased for orientation changes in the contralateral but not ipsilateral visual field. Second, the deficits caused by SC inhibition were specific to a temporal epoch coincident with early visual burst responses in the SC. Inhibiting SC during this 100-ms period caused a contralateral detection deficit, whereas inhibition immediately before or after did not. Third, SC inhibition reduced visual detection sensitivity. Psychometric analysis revealed that inhibiting SC visual activity significantly increased detection thresholds for contralateral orientation changes. In addition, effects on detection thresholds and lapse rates caused by SC inhibition were larger in the presence of a competing visual stimulus, indicating a role for the mouse SC in visual target selection. Together, our results demonstrate that the mouse SC is necessary for the normal performance of voluntary visual choice behaviors.

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The mouse superior colliculus (SC) has become a popular model for studying the circuit organization and development of the visual system. Although the SC is a fundamental component of the visual pathways in mice, its role in visual perceptual decision-making is not clear. By investigating how temporally precise SC inhibition influenced behavioral performance during a visually guided orientation change detection task, we identified a 100-ms temporal epoch of SC visual activity that is crucial for the ability of mice to detect behaviorally relevant visual changes. In addition, we found that SC inhibition also caused deficits in visual target selection. Thus, our findings highlight the importance of the SC for visual perceptual choice behavior in the mouse.




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Make your thunder heard. Join us in the Thunderclap for the Intl Year of Family Farming

Help raise the profile of the IYFF 2014 and its role in eradicating hunger Family farming is the predominant form of agriculture in the world with more than 500 million family farmers playing a key role in securing a future where more quality food is produced in a sustainable way.  For this reason, the 2014 International Year of Family Farming plays a [...]




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Mercury’s Messy Surface May Have Once Had Crucial Ingredients for Life

A new theory suggests the hot, harsh planet’s interior could have contained volatiles like water




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A Dead Cat's Brain Revives Discussion of 1960s Mercury Poisoning Disaster in Japan

The exact molecule behind the Minamata mercury disaster, caused by a chemical plant’s wastewater, remains a point of disagreement




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The Amazon’s 'Ghost Dogs' Face 30 Percent Habitat Loss

The solitary species is hard to spot on camera, and they're the only canine that lives in the Amazon rainforest




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Yukon has a new Indigenous commercial pilot

Shadunjen van Kampen, a 21-year-old member of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in Yukon, recently completed her written exams and flight test. She plans to be a commercial bush pilot. 



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