The brain is the central organ involved in perceiving and adapting to social and physical
stressors via multiple interacting mediators, from the cell surface to the cytoskeleton to …

The brain is the central organ of stress and adaptation to stress because it perceives and
determines what is threatening, as well as the behavioral and physiological responses to the …

This second edition of a unique text/reference identifies the appearance attributes of objects
and the methods available for measuring them, bringing together much material not …

Hellenistic poets of the third and second centuries BC were concerned with the need both to
mark their continuity with the classical past and to demonstrate their independence from it. …

In recent years the subtlety and complexity of Apollonius' Argonautica have been better
appreciated, but in Dr Hunter's view the purposes and aesthetic of the epic are still not readily …

The effects of acute heat stress (AHS) on indices of respiratory thermoregulation and skeletal
muscle damage (myopathy) were examined in broiler chickens at two ages (35 and 63 d of …

In writing this book on the plays of New Comedy the author's aim is to fill a gap in the existing
literature by concentrating on what one might look for in watching and reading these plays …

Glucocorticoids play an important biphasic role in modulating neural plasticity; low doses
enhance neural plasticity and spatial memory behavior, whereas chronic, higher doses …

The color difference meter has three photodetectors, each with a separate tristimulus filter,
and each receiving some of the light reflected from the specimen. Signals from the …

This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950,
and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry; the …