Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine, Cioran, Éliade, Ionesco. L’oubli du fascisme

Eve Roman and Alexandra

Introduction Epidemiology is the basic quantitative science of public health and, as such, is concerned with the distribution, determinants, treatment, management, and potential control of disease. Concentrating on the first two of these, this chapter reviews the epidemiology of lymphomas – a heterogeneous group of malignancies that is estimated to account for around 3–4% of cancers worldwide. ...

TATEMENT Alexandra Kolla

My research interests are concentrated in theoretical computer science, in particular in graph algorithms, approximation algorithms, complexity theory, and quantum computing. In the area of graph algorithms, my work is motivated by the increasing need to understand and manipulate massive graph structures that emerge from web applications and networks, using efficient graph approximation techniq...

Chris D’Souza and Alexandra Lai

In 1952, Nobel Laureate Harry Markowitz, . . . , demonstrated mathematically why putting all your eggs in one basket is an unacceptably risky strategy and why diversification is the nearest an investor or business manager can ever come to a free lunch. That revelation touched off the intellectual movement that revolutionized Wall Street, corporate finance, and business decisions around the worl...

A doctoral thesis about Carol Davila written in Paris in 1936

Carol Davila, the father of the Romanian modern medicine, made decisive contributions to the development of health sciences in the Romanian Principalities in the last decades of the nineteenth century. The merit of his scientific work was recognized beyond the borders of his country. His life (not devoid of anecdotic instances and unknown episodes) and especially his work have aroused considera...

Notes on a Visit to the Alexandra Hospital, Moscow