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Open University
Education•Milton Keynes, United Kingdom•
About: Open University is a education organization based out in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 11702 authors who have published 35020 publications receiving 1110835 citations. The organization is also known as: Open University, The & Open University.
Topics: Context (language use), Population, Higher education, Educational technology, Distance education
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TL;DR: It is proposed that “large” evolutionary changes could be the result of the canalization of novel developmental responses which arose from environmental challenges under conditions of relaxed natural selection, and moreover, that the canalized responses might involve cytoplasmic inheritance or maternal effects at least in the initial stages.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors question whether ethics committees are capable of making sound judgments about the ethics of what is proposed and practised in particular research projects, and also question the legitimacy of such regulation on ethical grounds.
Abstract: Ethical regulation of social research has increased considerably in the UK in the past few years, not least as a result of the ESRC’s Research Ethics Framework. This article questions whether ethics committees are capable of making sound judgments about the ethics of what is proposed and practised in particular research projects. In addition, the legitimacy of such regulation is questioned, on ethical grounds. Finally, it is argued that increased regulation will not raise the ‘ethical standard’ of social science and will probably worsen the quality of what it produces.
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TL;DR: There has been a surge in interest in statistical methods for the early detection of infectious disease outbreaks over the past decade as mentioned in this paper, and this growth in interest has given rise to much new methodological work, ranging across the spectrum of statistical methods.
Abstract: Unusual clusters of disease must be detected rapidly for effective public health interventions to be introduced. Over the past decade there has been a surge in interest in statistical methods for the early detection of infectious disease outbreaks.This growth in interest has given rise to much new methodological work, ranging across the spectrum of statistical methods.The paper presents a comprehensive review of the statistical approaches that have been proposed. Applications to both laboratory and syndromic surveillance data are provided to illustrate the various methods
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TL;DR: The authors explored the coherence of the omnivore thesis and found that there is a sector of the population of western countries who do and like a greater variety of forms of culture than previously, and that broad engagement reflects emerging values of tolerance and undermines snobbery.
Abstract: The concept of omnivorousness has become influential in the sociologies of culture and consumption, cited variously as evidence of altered hierarchies in cultural participation and as indicative of broader socio-cultural changes. The ‘omnivore thesis’ contends that there is a sector of the population of western countries who do and like a greater variety of forms of culture than previously, and that this broad engagement reflects emerging values of tolerance and undermines snobbery. This article draws on the findings of a study of cultural participation in the UK to explore the coherence of the omnivore thesis. It uses a survey to identify and isolate omnivores, and then proceeds to explore the meanings of omnivorousness through the analysis of in-depth, qualitative interviews with them. It concludes that, while there is evidence of wide cultural participation within the UK, the figure of the omnivore is less singularly distinctive than some studies have suggested.
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TL;DR: Fossiliferous rocks from southwest China show that a major extinction in the Middle Permian coincided with extensive volcanic eruptions, and the onset of volcanism was marked by both large phreatomagmatic eruptions and extinctions amongst fusulinacean foraminifers and calcareous algae.
Abstract: The 260-million-year-old Emeishan volcanic province of southwest China overlies and is interbedded with Middle Permian carbonates that contain a record of the Guadalupian mass extinction. Sections in the region thus provide an opportunity to directly monitor the relative timing of extinction and volcanism within the same locations. These show that the onset of volcanism was marked by both large phreatomagmatic eruptions and extinctions amongst fusulinacean foraminifers and calcareous algae. The temporal coincidence of these two phenomena supports the idea of a cause-and-effect relationship. The crisis predates the onset of a major negative carbon isotope excursion that points to subsequent severe disturbance of the ocean-atmosphere carbon cycle.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Simon Baron-Cohen | 172 | 773 | 118071 |
Rob Ivison | 166 | 1161 | 102314 |
David W. Johnson | 160 | 2714 | 140778 |
David Scott | 124 | 1561 | 82554 |
R. Santonico | 120 | 777 | 67421 |
Eva K. Grebel | 118 | 863 | 83915 |
Chris J. Hawkesworth | 112 | 360 | 38666 |
Johannes Brug | 109 | 620 | 44832 |
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen | 107 | 647 | 49080 |
M. Santosh | 103 | 1344 | 49846 |
Andrew J. King | 102 | 882 | 46038 |
Wim H. M. Saris | 99 | 506 | 34967 |
Peter Nijkamp | 97 | 2407 | 50826 |
John Dixon | 96 | 543 | 36929 |
Timothy Clark | 95 | 1137 | 53665 |