The mucosal environment in mammals is highly tolerogenic; however, after exposure to pathogens or danger signals, it is able to shift towards an inflammatory response. Dendritic cells (DCs) orchestrate immune responses and are highly responsible, through the secretion of cytokines…

Purpose: A number of studies and writings have presented ideas about new working practices that might be embraced in the twenty-first century. Moreover, that, employers would seek to gain their commitment by adopting the high working practices of high performance…

The ability of building robust semantic space representations of environments is crucial for the development of truly autonomous robots. This task, inherently connected with cognition, is traditionally achieved by training the robot with a supervised learning phase. We argue that…

To demonstrate that parsimony analysis of endemicity (PAE) can be a method implementing the panbiogeographic approach, we analyzed two data matrices of 40/38 biogeographic provinces x 148 plant species from the Caribbean subregion of the Neotropical region, one where taxa…

Drawing partly on personal experience, the author of this article seeks to unpack the expertise that service users bring to the design and delivery of mental health services. Service user involvement cannot be imposed by policy diktat from above, she…

Is the tyranny of the co-edition taking away
the magic of a ‘sense of place’ in picturebooks? In this essay, Martin Salisbury discusses the impact of globalised publishing on what picturebook artists may and may not represent.

The probation service is at risk of serious harm from the discourses of toughness and cure. People subject to community rehabilitation orders are categorised first and foremost as ‘offenders’ by probation officers, their managers and governors. Not surprisingly, people on…

This study analyse the influence of Knowledge of Results (KR) with different accuracy levels on the learning rate of a throwing skill of spatial non-vision accuracy, during the acquisition stage. We assessed the number of successful events, the distance from…

The original publication is available at springerlink.com., We examined group spread and interindividual spacing within wild mixedspecies
troops of saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and mustached (Saguinus
mystax) tamarins. Mustached tamarin groups were spread over larger areas
than those of saddleback tamarins.…

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