The continued salience of religious voting in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain

Conventional wisdom on party systems in advanced industrial democracies holds that modern electorates are dealigned and that social cleavages no longer structure party politics. Recent work on class cleavages has challenged this stylized fact. The analysis performed here extends this criticism to the religious-secular cleavage. Using path analysis and comparing the current electorates of the United States, Germany, and Great Britain with the early 1960s, this paper demonstrates that the religious-secular cleavage remains or has become a significant predictor of conservative vote choice. While the effects of the religious-secular cleavage on vote choice have become largely indirect, the total of the direct and indirect effects is substantial and equivalent to the effects of class and status.

The diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability in Italy and Great Britain: an exploratory spatial data analysis

Little research so far has been devoted to understanding the diffusion of grassroots innovation for sustainability across space. This paper explores and compares the spatial diffusion of two networks of grassroots innovations, the Transition Towns Network (TTN) and Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale (Solidarity Purchasing Groups – GAS), in Great Britain and Italy. Spatio-temporal diffusion data were mined from available datasets, and patterns of diffusion were uncovered through an exploratory data analysis. The analysis shows that GAS and TTN diffusion in Italy and Great Britain is spatially structured, and that the spatial structure has changed over time. TTN has diffused differently in Great Britain and Italy, while GAS and TTN have diffused similarly in central Italy. The uneven diffusion of these grassroots networks on the one hand challenges current narratives on the momentum of grassroots innovations, but on the other highlights important issues in the geography of grassroots innovations for sustainability, such as cross-movement transfers and collaborations, institutional thickness, and interplay of different proximities in grassroots innovation diffusion.

Elemental propagation of calcium signals in response-specific patterns determined by environmental stimulus strength

Plant cells can respond qualitatively and quantitatively to a wide range of environmental signals. Ca2+ is used as an intracellular signal for volume regulation in response to external osmotic changes. We show here that the spatiotemporal patterns of hypo-osmotically induced Ca2+ signals vary dramatically with stimulus strength in embryonic cells of the marine alga Fucus. Biphasic or multiphasic Ca2+ signals reflect Ca2+ elevations in distinct cellular domains. These propagate via elemental Ca2+ release in nuclear or peripheral regions that are rich in endoplasmic reticulum. Cell volume regulation specifically requires Ca2+ elevation in apical peripheral regions, whereas an altered cell division rate occurs only in response to stimuli that cause Ca2+ elevation in nuclear regions.

Calendar of entries in the Papal registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal letters.

Vols. 15- published by Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin.

Review, historical and political, of the late revolution in France, and of the consequent events in Belgium, Poland, Great Britain, and other parts of Europe.

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The natural method of cureing the diseases of the body and the disorders of the mind, depending on the body : in three parts, Part I. General reflections ... Part II. The means and method for preserving life and faculties ..., Part III. Reflections on the nature and cure of particular chronical distempers /

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A treatise on the scurvy : in three parts, containing an inquiry into the nature, causes, and cure, of that disease /

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A treatise on the scurvy : in three parts, containing an inquiry into the nature, causes, an cure, of that disease, together with a critical and chronological view of what has been published on the subject /

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De morbis cutaneis : a treatise of diseases incident to the skin in two parts with a short appendix concerning the efficacy of local remedies /

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A discourse concerning the Resurrection of Jesus Christ : in three parts ... /

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An account of the life and writings of Herman Boerhaave ... : in two parts, with an appendix /

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Calendar of entries in the Papal registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland. : Papal letters, 1198- ... /

Vol. 13 issued in co-operation with the Irish Manuscripts Commission; v. 15-20 published: Dublin : Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission.