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Mira variables in the Milky Way’s nuclear stellar disc: discovery and classification
(2022-11-30)The properties of the Milky Way's nuclear stellar disc give crucial information on the epoch of bar formation. Mira variables are promising bright candidates to study the nuclear stellar disc, and through their period-age ... -
Miracles, Martyrs and Martians : Religion and Cold War Cinematic Propaganda in the 1950s
(2002)This article examines Cold War film propaganda in the 1950s, when the cinema was enjoying its last period as the dominant visual mass entertainment form in both the West and the East. It concentrates on the role that ... -
The mirage of microfoundations
(2012)If the project to bring “microfoundations” into strategic management and organizational analysis (Abel, Felin and Foss 2008, Felin and Foss 2005, 2006, 2009) simply means that we “we stress the need to build microfoundations ... -
Mirror-view reverses somatoparaphrenia : Dissociation between first- and third-person perspectives on body ownership
(2011)Right-hemisphere stroke can lead to the somatoparaphrenic delusion that parts of one's own body belong to someone else. To our knowledge, no previous study has experimentally assessed the sense of body part ownership in ... -
Misalignment between cold gas and stellar components in early-type galaxies
(2015-03-11)Recent work suggests blue ellipticals form in mergers and migrate quickly from the blue cloud of star-forming galaxies to the red sequence of passively evolving galaxies, perhaps as a result of black hole feedback. Such ... -
The Misleading Potential of Communicative Hand Gestures in a Forensic Interview
(2011-06-16)A wealth of research has highlighted the susceptibility of eyewitnesses to verbal influence. However, considerably less attention has been paid to the role of nonverbal influence in police questioning. The purpose of this ... -
Misleading ‘quality’ measures in Higher Education : problems from combining diverse indicators that include subjective ratings and academic performance and costs
(2007)Quality indicators are often derived from weighted sums of diverse items, including ordinal Likert items. This procedure can be dangerously misleading because it takes no account of correlations among indicators. It also ... -
Miss Donnithorne's Maggot
(The Artists Recording Company, 2012-06)The 2012 St. Magnus International Festival commissioned me to produce and direct the first film version of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s opera ‘Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot’ (1974). An “iconic work (Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot) ... -
Miss Donnithorne's Maggot
(Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, 2012-06-30)The 2012 St. Magnus International Festival commissioned me to produce and direct the first film version of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s opera ‘Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot’ (1974). An “iconic work (Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot) ... -
The missing link : merging neutron stars naturally produce jet-like structures and can power short gamma-ray bursts
(2011)Short gamma-ray Bursts (SGRBs) are among the most luminous explosions in the universe, releasing in less than one second the energy emitted by our Galaxy over one year. Despite decades of observations, the nature of their ... -
The missing M dwarfs
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Missing Mass in Collisional Debris from Galaxies
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Missing Men in Education
(Trentham Books, 2006)This book reports on the ten years' research by the authors into men in teaching. There is much concern about boys' underachievement in schools compared to girls. But attributing this to the dearth of men in teaching is ... -
Missing steps in a staircase : a qualitative study of the perspectives of key stakeholders on the use of adaptive designs in confirmatory trials
(2015-09-28)Despite the promising benefits of adaptive designs (ADs), their routine use, especially in confirmatory trials, is lagging behind the prominence given to them in the statistical literature. Much of the previous research ... -
Misuse of anticholinergic medications: a systematic review.
(2022-02-01)(1) Background: Over the last decade, misuse and diversion of medications has appeared to be increasingly concerning phenomena, including a range of different molecules. As current knowledge on the abuse of centrally acting ... -
The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001: A case study in poor legislative drafting
(2022-07-11)The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 (MDRs) create exemptions to the offences of possession, production, supply, and administration of controlled drugs (CDs), which are necessary to allow healthcare professionals to treat ... -
Misuse of prescription and over-the-counter drugs to obtain illicit highs: how pharmacists can prevent abuse
(2020-11-18)There have been increasing reports of misuse of a range of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs for recreational purposes. The use of psychoactive pharmaceuticals and ‘pharming’ are new, widespread phenomena ... -
The misuse of the NASA metrics data program data sets for automated software defect prediction
(Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2011)Background: The NASA Metrics Data Program data sets have been heavily used in software defect prediction experiments. Aim: To demonstrate and explain why these data sets require significant pre-processing in order to be ...