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Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and the narratives of faith
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Nietzsche, Zarathustra and the status of laughter
(1992)Laughter is not one of the phenomena most commonly associated with Friedrich Nietzsche. Indeed, numerous people to whom I have mentioned my interest in Nietzsche on laughter seem to have assumed that connecting the two was ... -
'Nigel Kneale (1922-2006)'
(Routledge, 2009)Nigel Kneale was the most influential science-fiction writer in British television of the twentieth century, as my account seeks to establish. Although his oeuvre has been summarised in biographical encyclopaedias before, ... -
Night School : The Life-Changing Science of Sleep
(Macmillan, 2014)Almost a third of your whole life is spent asleep. Every night you close your eyes, become oblivious to your surroundings and waste hours flying, being chased or watching all your teeth fall out – and then you wake up. ... -
Nightmare on Nevsky Prospekt : The Blue Bird and the Curious Episode of Soviet-American Film Collaboration during the Cold War
(2012-03-02)Combining cinematic and diplomatic history, this article examines a curious relic of the détente phase of the Cold War, the fantasy-musical The Blue Bird. Released on the silver screen in 1976, The Blue Bird was the only ... -
[NII] fine-structure emission at 122 and 205um in a galaxy at z=2.6: a globally dense star-forming interstellar medium
(2020-12-23)We present new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array of the 122um and 205um fine-structure line emission of singly-ionised nitrogen in a strongly lensed starburst galaxy at z=2.6. The 122/205um ... -
Nimrod AEW flies again : A procurement case study
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1994-05)The paper introduces the background to the development of the Nimrod Airborne Early Warning (AEW) system and its eventual demise. The Nimrod program represents the largest development effort of the early 1070s. It is aimed ... -
Nine Lives of William Shakespeare
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2013-09-12)An innovative biography in which Graham Holderness shows that Shakespeare's lives are multiple and discontinuous. -
Nine Lives of William Shakespeare
(Continuum, 2011)Despite remaining a fascinating figure of literature, scholars and historians alike still know few concrete facts about who Shakespeare was and how he lived. By exploring facts, literature tradition and imaginative ... -
Nineteenth Century American Literature : Texts, Contexts, Connections
(Longman, 2011)This text explores the culture and literature of nineteenth-century America, examining several genres including the early American novel, realist fiction and historical romance, short stories and poetry. It goes on to ... -
NIR spectroscopy of star-forming galaxies at z similar to 1.4 with Subaru/FMOS : The mass-metallicity relation.
(2012-06-25)We present near-infrared spectroscopic observations of star-forming galaxies at z similar to 1.4 with FMOS on the Subaru Telescope. We observed K-band selected galaxies in the SXDS/UDS fields with K <= 23.9 mag, 1.2 <= ... -
NIR Tully-Fisher in the Zone of Avoidance. - II. 21 cm HI-line spectra of southern ZOA galaxies
(2016-02-10)High-accuracy H I profiles and linewidths are presented for inclined ((b/a) o < 0.5) spiral galaxies in the southern Zone of Avoidance (ZOA). These galaxies define a sample for use in the determinations of peculiar velocities ... -
NIR Tully-Fisher in the Zone of Avoidance. -- III. Deep NIR catalogue of the HIZOA galaxies
(2016-11-01)We present a deep near-infrared (NIR) photometric catalogue of sources from the Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance (HIZOA) survey, which forms the basis for an investigation of the matter distribution in the Zone of Avoidance. ... -
Nitazoxanide is active against Clostridium difficile strains with reduced susceptibility to metronidazole
(2011)Treatment strategies for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) have changed little over the past two decades. Metronidazole and vancomycin continue to be the first-line antimicrobial treatments for CDI.1 While the drugs ... -
Nitrate Non-utilizing Mutants and Vegetative Compatibility Groups of Fusarium proliferatum and F. sacchari Isolated from Rice in the Peninsular Malaysia and Kalimantan, Indonesia.
(2009)A total of 26 isolates of Fusarium proliferatum and F. sacchari were isolated from rice in the Peninsular Malaysia and Kalimantan, Indonesia. Spontaneous chlorate-resistant sectors (CRSs) were recovered from all wild type ... -
Nitrates for the Management of Acute Heart Failure Syndromes, A Systematic Review
(2017-01-01)Intravenous nitrates are widely used in the management of acute heart failure syndrome (AHFS) yet with lack of robust evidence to support their use. We therefore sought to analyze all randomized studies that evaluated the ... -
Nitric oxide-dependent vasodilation is compromised in isolated pulmonary arteries from COX knockout mice
(2013-04)Cyclooxygenase (COX) has two isoforms and is essential for prostanoid synthesis. COX-1 is constitutive whilst COX-2 is induced in inflammation. Two COX products, prostacyclin (PGI2) and thromboxane (TxA2), regulate vessel ...