A personal view of the early development of computational neuroscience in the USA by John W Moore

“…In the half-century since the seminal Hodgkin-Huxley papers were published, computational neuroscience has become an established discipline, evolving from computer modeling of neurons to attempts to understand the computational functions of the brain. …”
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Let bees be bees by Norman A. Johnson

“…Abstract Thomas Seeley reviews a half century of research, mostly conducted by himself and his colleagues on the ecology, evolution, and natural history of wild honey bees. …”
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Extreme Climate in China: Facts, Simulation and Projection by Hui-Jun Wang, Jian-Qi Sun, Huo-Po Chen, Ya-Li Zhu, Ying Zhang, Da-Bang Jiang, Xian-Mei Lang, Ke Fan, En-Tao Yu, Song Yang

“…The review is focused first on the climatological features, variability, and trends in the past half century and then on simulations and projections based on global and regional climate models. …”
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A brief account of Julius Planer's life and research by R. Bilyy, A. Lutsyk

“…Professor Planer is a scientist who lived one and half century ago. However, his studies, in particular, during the years when he headed Department of Anatomy at Universität in Lemberg, nowadays known as the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in Ukraine, were essential to a modern understanding of liquid crystals. …”
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La rhétorique de la qualification et les controverses d’étiquetage by Marc Angenot

“…It then focuses on two issues: the disagreements between historians regarding the use in historiography of some legal categories such as “genocide”, and the techniques of demonization, more specifically the use and abuse over the last half-century of name tags such as “fascist”, “totalitarian” and the like.…”
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Environnements naturel et matériel : vers une culture de l’éducation scientifique by Faouzia Kalali

“…The rapid changes and mutations that have accelerated over the past half century have led to an upheaval in contemporary socio-cultural realities. …”
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Athol Fugard. Un ritratto by Franco Arato

“…In this portrait the author sketches the half-century career of the South African playwright Athol Fugard (born in 1932), whose experience is deeply rooted in the political history of that country, between apartheid and post-apartheid era, between repression and liberation. …”
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Late-Term Abortion and Medical Necessity: A Failure of Science by James Studnicki

“…Wade (1973) placed the concept of medical necessity at the center of the public discourse on abortion. Nearly a half century later, 2 laws dealing with late-term abortion, 1 passed in New York and 1 set aside in Virginia, are an indication that the medical necessity argument regarding abortion has been rendered irrelevant. …”
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Sovereignty and Nuclear Weapons: The Need for Real Sovereign Authority Rooted in the People’s Global Expectations about Survival, Peace and Security by Winston P. Nagan, Garry Jacobs

“…Evolution of the global community over the past half century necessitates a reformulation of the concept to justly represent the rights of individual citizens and the global community as a whole. …”
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Causal mechanism behind the stall delay by airfoil’s pitching-up motion by Shufan Zou, Ankang Gao, Yipeng Shi, Jiezhi Wu

“…Various attempts have been proposed to answer this question over the past half century, but none is satisfactory. In this letter we prove that a chain of vorticity-dynamics processes at accelerating boundary is fully responsible for the causal mechanism underlying this peculiar phenomenon. …”
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Chromatin roadblocks to reprogramming 50 years on by Skene Peter J, Henikoff Steven

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>A half century after John Gurdon demonstrated nuclear reprogramming, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, his group provides insights into the molecular mechanisms whereby chromatin remodeling is required for nuclear reprogramming. …”
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AFRICAN WOMEN WRITERS : CONFIGURING CHANGE AT THE INTERFACE OF POLITICS AND FICTION by Claire H. Griffiths

“…The reception of this literary genre in its locality helps reposition the discourse of gender and development within the region, offering a culturally‐embedded voice in the gender and development debate that has been marginalised in the framing of the international development agenda for Africa over the past half century.…”
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Clifford Edmund Bosworth: An Updated Bibliography by Michael O’Neal

“…With the passing of Edmund Bosworth on February 28, 2015, the world lost one of the greatest historians of the Islamic Middle East of the last half century. In terms of scholarly output, he was undoubtedly the most prolific one. …”
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L’avènement d’une « histoire au second degré » by Felipe Brandi

“…The aim of these pages is to outline a non exhaustive reconstitution of half century of historiography work, in France, from 1940 to 1990. …”
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Combined oral contraceptives: evolution of the relationship benefit/risk by O. S. Alyautdina

“…Risk/benefit ratio of this group of drugs over the half-century history is largely changed in the direction of safety. …”
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Empirical Musicology Review: Serialist Claims versus Sonic Reality by William Thomson

“…This study examines the descriptive mores of Serialism, as found in writings of leading American academics of the past half-century. A serious gap is revealed, especially between claims made for structural conditions rooted in dodecaphonic procedures and the actual kinetics of music as heard. …”
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How to Overcome an Anti-democratic Heritage by Mehmet Botan Kayhan, Nathália Mariel

“…In both countries, neoliberal policies were implemented through constitutions made under the shadow of military dictatorships. For the last half-century, the development of democratic culture in both countries was undermined by military coups and military governments using anti-democratic methods. …”
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DRAWING THE PATH OF BASIC DESIGN AT IADE by Ana Glória Neves, Emília Duarte, Diana Dias

“…Although Basic Design’s different expressions and formats throughout the institute's half-century existence, the persistence and developing nature of Basic Design allows it for innovation, namely, through the contribution of Virtual Reality-based pedagogical tools.…”
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Membrane theory of the pathogenesis of arterial hypertension: What do we know about this, half a century later? by S. N. Orlov

“…The review summarizes the history of the discovery in the mid-70s of the impaired ion transport across the plasma membrane of cells during primary arterial hypertension. A half-century’s history of studies on the molecular nature of the ionic transporters underlying these disorders and the mechanisms mediated by them leading to the development of hypertension and complications caused by a long-term increase in blood pressure is analyzed.…”
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Clinical progress in carotid endarterectomy by Xiao-min LIU

“…Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) has already become the golden standard prophylactic treatment for carotid artery stenosis and ischemic stroke in recent half century. The influence of selection between CEA and carotid artery stenting (CAS), changes in cognition after surgery, use of patch and shunt and gender difference on perioperative period and postoperative complications remains unclear. …”
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