Abstract Forty years ago Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle combined what we would
now call fragmentary evidence from nuclear physics, stellar evolution and the abundances …

A comprehensive review of relaxation processes in semi-crystalline polymers is presented.
Methods for assignment of phase origin of relaxations are discussed. Experimental results …

I yater rcdew Page 1 I yater rcdew Relaxation processes in crystalline polymers: Molecular
interpretation -a review Richard H. Boyd Department of Materials Science and Engineering …

Scientific realism is the doctrine that scientific theories should be understood as putative
descriptions of real phenomena, that ordinary scientific methods constitute a reliable …

The aim of the present essay is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the various
“traditional” arguments for and against scientific realism. I conclude that the typical realist …

Regarding the alternative conception that species are individuals, I examine the
individuation of individuals in the light of considerations of accommodation and conclude …

In his interesting and challenging paper" A Tradition of Natural Kinds" Professor Hacking
identifies a long-standing empiricist tradition of theorizing about natural kinds, he identifies …

Background Climate change threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public
health. In response, the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been working since …

Despite the importance of thymic stromal cells to T-cell development, relatively little is known
about their biology. Here, we use single-cell analysis of stromal cells to analyze extensive …

The thymus undergoes age-related atrophy, coincident with increased circulating sex
steroids from puberty. The impact of thymic atrophy is most profound in clinical conditions …