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Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

Combinatorial Synthesis by Nature: Volatile Organic Sulfur-Containing Constituents of Ruta chalepensis L.

CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY, Issue 9 2006
Sina Escher
Abstract Ongoing interest in discovering new natural fragrance and flavor ingredients prompted us to examine a solvent extract of sulfurous-sweaty smelling Ruta chalepensis L. (Rutaceae) plant material more closely. Twenty-one sulfur-containing constituents of similar structures were identified by GC/MS techniques. Amongst them, 14 have never been described to occur in nature. The compounds 1,18 belong to a family of natural flavor and fragrance molecules having a 1,3-positioned O,S moiety in common. The identities of the natural constituents were confirmed by comparison with synthetic reference samples, and the organoleptic properties of the latter were studied. The relative and absolute configurations of the four stereoisomers of 4-methyl-3-sulfanylhexan-1-ol (5) were established by stereoselective synthesis. The natural isomers consisted of a 65,:,35 mixture of (3R,4S)- 5 and (3S,4S)- 5. [source]

Crucial Issues for Statistics in the Next Two Decades

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW, Issue 1 2001
Nicholas I. Fisher
Summary This collection of articles stems from an Invited Paper meeting at the 52nd Session of the ISI in Helsinki, August 1999. The purpose of the session was to explore issues likely to be critical to the long-term survival of the discipline, if not the profession, of Statistics. The contributors in the session have all made outstanding contributions to both the theory and practice of Statistics, and have also had an ongoing interest in the long-term development of the subject. Subsequently, they were given the opportunity to elaborate on their contributions, for wider dissemination. [source]

PLACES OF WORSHIP AND NEIGHBORHOOD STABILITY

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 4 2006
NANCY T. KINNEY
ABSTRACT:,Despite ongoing interest in religious group involvement in community development, only limited research has considered whether the mere existence of a place of worship can be linked to neighborhood well-being. This exploratory study uses a cross-sectional design to examine the relationships between the presence of churches in high-poverty neighborhoods and specific measures of neighborhood stability. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and geographic information system (GIS) software were employed to compare measures of structural permanence, residential tenure, and property valuation from a sample of two types of church (freestanding and storefront) and non-church areas or "clusters." The findings provide limited support for the conclusion that storefront churches, while modest and often regarded as less architecturally significant, may be overlooked contributors to the sort of stable urban space where residential population is preserved and investment maintained. [source]

On Neoliberalism and Other Social Diseases: The 2008 Sociocultural Anthropology Year in Review

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2009
Justin B. Richland
ABSTRACT In this article, I consider a selection of the 129 articles of new research published in five of the leading Anglo-American peer-reviewed outlets for sociocultural anthropology in 2008, discerning two general, but related, trends. The first suggests an ongoing interest among sociocultural anthropologists in new forms and contexts of market capitalism and a deepening concern for the multiple, complex, and even contradictory orientations to those forms by social actors caught up in them. The second reveals a concern with the imbrications of political and scientific epistemologies, particularly as they emerge in state policies and actions around issues of public health, the environment, and agriculture. Where they come together is in the number of studies whose objects of inquiry reside at the nexus where science, politics, and markets meet in what they see as the creeping expansion of neoliberal logics and their implications for the state as a political formation. [Keywords: sociocultural anthropology, neoliberalism, science studies, public health, capitalism] [source]