Different Wars: Twentieth-century Wars in Modern English-language Comics

Proportionality in Modern Asymmetrical Wars

Language , Thought , and the Linguistics Wars

"Never eat more than you can lift," advises Miss Piggy; or, to quote the somewhat less voracious Ms. Anonymous, "Don't bite off more than you can chew." Putting aside the differences of scale which give these cautions their flavor, we get a very clear warning, one whose kernel is so apparent that paraphrase only mangles it. But it's not an especially easy warning to follow, especially for juicy...

Gastrointestinal problems in modern wars: clinical features and possible mechanisms

Gastrointestinal problems are common during wars, and they have exerted significant adverse effects on the health of service members involved in warfare. The spectrum of digestive diseases has varied during wars of different eras. At the end of the 20th century, new frontiers of military medical research emerged due to the occurrence of high-tech wars such as the Gulf War and the Kosovo War, in...

Slice wars vs dose wars in multiple-row detector CT.

he short answer is yes. At this oint in time, it seems that the soalled slice wars with regard to the umber of slices provided per comuted tomographic (CT) gantry roation may be reaching a plateau. At he same time, increasing concerns bout radiation dose due to CT exminations are fueling the efforts to educe radiation dose and leading o the beginning of the so-called ose wars. Since 1998, there...

Clone Wars

Code clones, the result of the ”copy&paste” programming technique, have negative impact on software quality and on the efficiency of the software maintenance process. Although copying may be the fastest way of creating a new feature, after a while it is really hard to detect and maintain the multiple instances of the same code snippets. Based on static source code analysis, clone detectors try ...