Variance deficit is not reliable evidence for niche limitation

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Lepš
Keyword(s):  
Niche Limitation ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
Variance Deficit

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Accurate Information ◽  
John Bale ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
John Leland ◽  
Monastic Libraries

Reformers in England saw losses as well as gains in the Reformation. John Leland and John Bale recorded the contents of monastic libraries. Matthew Parker recovered manuscripts from the past. The Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries, comprised of lawyers, scholars, and country gentlemen, developed methods of ascertaining accurate information about the past. William Camden, the author of Annals of Elizabeth (1615, Latin) and Britannia (1586, Latin), wrote a new kind of history: dispassionate, based on reliable evidence, and concerned with changes in society. Fifty years after Camden’s lifetime, Thomas Fuller followed methods and approaches that the antiquaries and their successors employed, while developing ideas very much his own.

Counterpoint: Chemosensitivity Assays for Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurie Markman
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Recurrent Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Chemosensitivity Assay ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
In Vitro Chemosensitivity ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Chemosensitivity Assays

Unfortunately, no reliable evidence-based data have shown any in vitro chemosensitivity assay strategy to be clinically useful in the management of recurrent ovarian cancer, despite frequent use. Several clinical trials have been proposed with the potential to support or refute the relevance of these approaches.

Early Accusations of Well Poisoning against Jews: Medieval Reality or Historiographical Fiction?

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-539
Author(s):  
Tzafrir Barzilay
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Reliable Evidence

This article reexamines the idea prevalent in existing historiography that Jews were accused of well poisoning before 1321. It argues that the historians who studied the origins of such accusations were misled by sources written in the early modern period to think that Jews were charged with well poisoning as early as the eleventh century. However, a careful analysis of the sources reveals that there is little reliable evidence that such cases happened before the fourteenth century, much less on a large scale. Thus, the conclusions of the article call for a new chronology of well-poisoning charges made against Jews, starting closer to the fourteenth century.

First record of a large Callixylon trunk from the late Devonian of Gondwana

1997 ◽  
Vol 134 (6) ◽  
pp. 847-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. MEYER-BERTHAUD ◽  
J. WENDT ◽  
J. GALTIER
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Late Devonian ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Reliable Evidence

A 5 m long permineralized trunk from the Upper Kellwasser member of southern Morocco represents the first record of a large trunk of an identifiable species of Callixylon, C. erianum, from Gondwana. This occurrence constitutes the most reliable evidence based on plant megafossils for a floral connection between Laurussia and Gondwana in late Devonian times and for a proximity of these continents in Famennian times. The potential of this trunk for studies of the architecture and growth patterns of the earliest trees with a gymnospermous type of arborescent habit is discussed.

Propagule vs. niche limitation: untangling the mechanisms behind plant species' distributions

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 797-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara A. Moore ◽  
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Species Distributions ◽  
Niche Limitation ◽  
Plant Species Distributions

Cancer Drugs Fund needs reliable evidence from trials

2016 ◽  
Vol 763 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Drugs ◽  
Reliable Evidence

Province of Origin of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Carriers Among Blood Donors in Port Moresby

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Iga ◽  
D. V. Babona ◽  
G. T. Nurse
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Surface Antigen ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Hepatitis B Surface Antigen ◽  
Carrier Status ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
Port Moresby ◽  
Area Of Origin

A paper published in the Medical Journal of Australia in 1972 gave a breakdown of Port Moresby blood donors by HBS Ag carrier status and area of origin. It has lately become possible to test whether such geographical subsamples provide reliable evidence of the carrier status in the home areas, and it appears that, except for the Islands provinces, they do not. Traditional lifestyles conduce to the maintenance and spread of the virus, which is much more prevalent in the provinces than in the capital.

Deliberate Presleep Control of Dream Content: An Experimental Study

1977 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 660-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Griffin ◽  
D. Foulkes
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Dream Content ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Do So

29 subjects attempted, over a period of 10 nights, to influence their dreams using techniques described in Garfield's book, Creative Dreaming (1974). A target suggestion was selected from a list of six suggestions compiled by, or for, each subject. Subjects kept daily records during the experiment both of their efforts at dream influence and of the dreams they recalled. Four judges attempted to identify from the dream material the target suggestion on each subject's suggestion list. The results indicated that the judges were unable to do so at better than chance levels. Thus analysis indicated no reliable evidence that conscious presleep suggestions become incorporated into dream content.

Plato as "Architect of Science"

Phronesis ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid Zhmud
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pure Research

AbstractThe figure of the cordial host of the Academy, who invited the most gifted mathematicians and cultivated pure research, whose keen intellect was able if not to solve the particular problem then at least to show the method for its solution: this figure is quite familiar to students of Greek science. But was the Academy as such a center of scientific research, and did Plato really set for mathematicians and astronomers the problems they should study and methods they should use? Our sources tell about Plato's friendship or at least acquaintance with many brilliant mathematicians of his day (Theodorus, Archytas, Theaetetus), but they were never his pupils, rather vice versa - he learned much from them and actively used this knowledge in developing his philosophy. There is no reliable evidence that Eudoxus, Menaechmus, Dinostratus, Theudius, and others, whom many scholars unite into the group of so-called "Academic mathematicians," ever were his pupils or close associates. Our analysis of the relevant passages (Eratosthenes' Platonicus, Sosigenes ap. Simplicius, Proclus' Catalogue of geometers, and Philodemus' History of the Academy, etc.) shows that the very tendency of portraying Plato as the architect of science goes back to the early Academy and is born out of interpretations of his dialogues.

Towards a better understanding of the genus Sciurella Allman, 1883 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Plumulariidae): evidence from an integrative study

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5040 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
HORIA R. GALEA ◽  
DAVIDE MAGGIONI ◽  
CRISTINA G. DI CAMILLO
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Data ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
Molecular Studies ◽  
Integrative Study ◽  
Phylogenetic Hypotheses

The genus Sciurella Allman, 1883 is reassessed based on fertile specimens from Indonesia and Australia, using both morphological and genetic approaches. The genus is resurrected and kept distinct from Nemertesia Lamouroux, 1812 on the account of its long, tubular hydrothecae, and the gonothecae (of which only the female ones are known) provided with nematothecae. Stellate gonothecae correspond to S. indivisa Allman, 1883, while urn-shaped gonothecae are subjectively attributable to S. cylindrica (Kirchenpauer, 1876), comb. nov., a nominal species originally described based on sterile material. The taxonomy of the latter species is discussed in light of the available literature data, and Antennularia cylindrica Bale, 1884 is confidently assigned to its synonymy. Plumularia dolichotheca Allman, 1883 is provisionally transferred to Sciurella, as S. dolichotheca comb. nov., pending the discovery of fertile specimens and reliable evidence from molecular studies. The newly-generated genetic data for S. indivisa and S. cylindrica clearly confirm the distinction between Sciurella and Nemertesia, the two genera occupying divergent positions within the Plumulariidae phylogenetic hypotheses.  

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