Bunker Mentalities: The Shifting Imaginaries of Albania’s Fortified Landscape

The Shifting Demographic Landscape of Pandemic Influenza

BACKGROUND As Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza spreads around the globe, it strikes school-age children more often than adults. Although there is some evidence of pre-existing immunity among older adults, this alone may not explain the significant gap in age-specific infection rates. METHODS AND FINDINGS Based on a retrospective analysis of pandemic strains of influenza from the last century, w...

Demystifying mentalities

This latest book by Geoffrey Lloyd continues his exploration into the origins of Greek scientific thought. In it he examines the concept of "mentalities" as an explanation for the peculiar development of medicine, mathematics, and science in early Greece, as well as a description of the thought-processes of primitive and less primitive societies. In both respects he finds it seriously flawed. I...

The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans

A Brief History: Shifting Theoretical Landscape

Writing can be defined in a variety of ways. In this examination of learning to write, we view writing as a complex cognitive process and examine instruction that is designed to enable writers to communicate their ideas effectively and perform well in academic settings, on standardized assessments such as the Nation’s Report Card (Salahu-Din, Persky, & Miller, 2008), and in the modern workplace...

The Shifting Demographic Landscape of Pandemic In uenza: Supporting Information

as discussed in the main text. Following Bayes rule, p res (kr) is then the sum of the product of the probabilities that a node in the extended residual network has degree kr given that it had original degree ko , (pres(kr|ko)), the probability that the node of original degree ko was uninfected in the rst epidemic, (ηko), and the probability that the node had original degree ko , (pko) . In a s...