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Reassessing Portia: The Iconic Potential of Shakespeare's Woman Lawyer (2003)
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Rackley, E. (2003). Reassessing Portia: The Iconic Potential of Shakespeare's Woman Lawyer. Feminist Legal Studies, 11(1), 25-44. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1023274821930

This paper considers the adoption of Portia, the heroine of The Merchant of Venice, by feminist legal scholars as a metaphor for the woman lawyer. It suggests that Portia has both captured and is captured by the feminist legal scholar's imagination,... Read More about Reassessing Portia: The Iconic Potential of Shakespeare's Woman Lawyer.

Burials and Political Boundaries in the Avebury region, North Wiltshire (2003)
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Semple, S. (2003). Burials and Political Boundaries in the Avebury region, North Wiltshire. Anglo-Saxon studies in archaeology and history, 12, 72-91

This paper explores the burial record of North Wiltshire and argues that the preponderance of barrow burials and common use of ancient remains as well as a number of isolated barrow burials relates particularly to the status of this region as a fluct... Read More about Burials and Political Boundaries in the Avebury region, North Wiltshire.

Orientation and solvatochromism of dyes in liquid crystals (2003)
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Palsson, L., Szablewski, M., Roberts, A., Masutani, A., Love, G., Cross, G., …Yasuda, A. (2003). Orientation and solvatochromism of dyes in liquid crystals. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 402(1), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/744816685

The orientation and solvatochromism of some dye molecules in a liquid crystal have been investigated. Interactions with the host and the structure of the dye molecule affect the macroscopic alignment of dichroic dye molecules in a liquid crystal: It... Read More about Orientation and solvatochromism of dyes in liquid crystals.

The influence of morphological information on cataphoric pronoun assignment (2003)
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Van Gompel, R., & Liversedge, S. (2003). The influence of morphological information on cataphoric pronoun assignment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29(1), 128-139. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.29.1.128

In 3 eye-tracking experiments, the authors investigated the use of morphological information during pronoun resolution. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that disruption occurred when a preferred assignment was inconsistent with gender information. Experime... Read More about The influence of morphological information on cataphoric pronoun assignment.

Have Geographers Lost their Way? Issues relating to the recruitment of geographers into school teaching (2003)
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Rawlinson, S., Essex-Cater, L., Bolden, D., & Constable, H. (2003). Have Geographers Lost their Way? Issues relating to the recruitment of geographers into school teaching. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 27(1), 39-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309826032000062450

Despite efforts by the United Kingdom Government, the Teacher Training Agency and other organisations to address the problem of teacher shortages in geography within English schools, thee subject is still failing to attract sufficient students into t... Read More about Have Geographers Lost their Way? Issues relating to the recruitment of geographers into school teaching.

Draft Constitutional Treaty of the European Union and related documents (2003)
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Dashwood, A., Dougan, M., Hillion, C., Johnston, A., & Spaventa, E. (2003). Draft Constitutional Treaty of the European Union and related documents. European law review, 28(1), 3-38

The texts which are presented here represent a contribution to the debate which is taking place in Brussels within the Convention on the Future of Europe. They were prepared at the invitation, and with the support, of the Foreign and Commonwealth Off... Read More about Draft Constitutional Treaty of the European Union and related documents.

''The One and the Many': Grace Paley's Short Story Cycle' (2003)
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Lister, R. (2003). ''The One and the Many': Grace Paley's Short Story Cycle'. Short story (Columbia, S.C.), 11(1), 73-83

This article reads Grace Paley's Faith Darwin stories as a short story cycle. It explores the Faith stories in the light of a number of theories about the story cycle form, placing particular emphasis on the metafictional dimension of Paley's work an... Read More about ''The One and the Many': Grace Paley's Short Story Cycle'.

Mother's milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940 (2003)
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Atkins, P. (2003). Mother's milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940. Anthropology of food, 2,

My contribution to this journal issue is to reconstruct the darker side of the most popular of infant foods. I will give a brief overview of contamination and disease in Britain's milk supply between 1880 and 1940, with particular reference to the im... Read More about Mother's milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940.

Reforming Family Property: Comparisons, Compromises and Common Dimensions (2003)
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Fox, L. (2003). Reforming Family Property: Comparisons, Compromises and Common Dimensions. Child and family law quarterly, 15(1), 1-20

This article examines family property policy in several Commonwealth jurisdictions. The article compares both ‘family’ and ‘property’ dimensions of policies adopted in each jurisdiction, and argues that a common feature of each policy is the compromi... Read More about Reforming Family Property: Comparisons, Compromises and Common Dimensions.

Topological complexity of motion planning (2003)
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Farber, M. (2003). Topological complexity of motion planning. Discrete & Computational Geometry, 29(2), 211-221. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-002-0760-9

In this paper we study a notion of topological complexity TC(X) for the motion planning problem. TC(X) is a number which measures discontinuity of the process of motion planning in the configuration space X . More precisely, TC(X) is the minimal numb... Read More about Topological complexity of motion planning.

Sulphur isotopes in palaeodietary studies: a review and results from a controlled feeding experiment (2003)
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Richards, M., Fuller, B., Sponheimer, M., Robinson, T., & Ayliffe, L. (2003). Sulphur isotopes in palaeodietary studies: a review and results from a controlled feeding experiment. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 13(1-2), 37-45. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.654

Recent advances in mass spectrometry now allow relatively routine measurements of sulphur isotopes (34S) in small samples (>10 mg) of tissue from archaeological human, plant, and faunal samples. 34S values of human and faunal bone collagen can indica... Read More about Sulphur isotopes in palaeodietary studies: a review and results from a controlled feeding experiment.

Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup mortality not explained by local breeding density on North Rona, Scotland (2003)
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Twiss, S., Duck, C., & Pomeroy, P. (2003). Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup mortality not explained by local breeding density on North Rona, Scotland. Journal of Zoology, 259(1), 83-91. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0952836902003035

Pre-weaning pup mortality of grey seals Halichoerus grypus in a breeding colony (North Rona, Scotland, U.K.) was examined in relation to the density of local adult females over two breeding seasons. Accurate, fine-scale maps of daily seal locations w... Read More about Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup mortality not explained by local breeding density on North Rona, Scotland.

Oral antioxidant supplementation for fatigue associated with primary biliary cirrhosis: results of a multicentre, randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial (2003)
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Prince, M., Mitchison, H., Ashley, D., Burke, D., Edwards, N., Bramble, M., …Jones, D. (2003). Oral antioxidant supplementation for fatigue associated with primary biliary cirrhosis: results of a multicentre, randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 17(1), 137-143. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2036.2003.01398.x

Background: We have previously reported, in an uncontrolled trial, an improvement in fatigue scores in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis given oral antioxidant supplementation. We now present data from a controlled trial. Patients and methods:... Read More about Oral antioxidant supplementation for fatigue associated with primary biliary cirrhosis: results of a multicentre, randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial.