AIDS: it came for the carnival.

The Theory of Multiple Expansion of Deposits: What It Is and Whence It Came

Beginning students of banking must grapple with a curious paradox: the banking system can multiply deposits on a given base of reserves yet none of its member banks can do so. Let the reserve-to-deposit ratio be, say, 20 percent and the system can, by making loans, create $5 of deposit money per dollar of reserves received. By contrast, the individual bank receiving that same dollar on deposit ...

It Came From Beneath: Detecting and Mitigating Vapor Intrusion

Although indoor air quality has been a topic of intense public health inquiry for many years, it's only been relatively recent that vapor intrusion has been recognized as a source of indoor air contaminants. Today researchers are searching for better ways to measure and control volatile chemicals that can enter buildings from the soil and groundwater beneath them.

The Norwegian National IT Plan, 1987-1990: Whence It Came, What It Was, and How It Ended

In the late 1970s and early 1980s most of the technically advanced nations organized national R&D programs for speeding up the intake of information technologies in industry and society as a whole. In addition, Norway organized a National IT plan that ran for four years from 1987–90. The idea of having a national plan was initiated in 1982–83. This paper shortly covers events of around ten year...

‘It came up to here’: Learning from Children’s Flood Narratives

The growing body of literature that seeks to understand the social impacts of flooding has failed to recognise the value of children's knowledge. Working with a group of flood-affected children in Hull using a storyboard methodology this paper argues that the children have specific flood experiences that need to be understood in their own right. In this paper we consider the ways in which the d...

Gender and sleep "Morning came, as it always does".