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Families of Vicious Walkers

We consider a generalisation of the vicious walker problem in which N random walkers in R are grouped into p families. Using field-theoretic renormalisation group methods we calculate the asymptotic behaviour of the probability that no pairs of walkers from different families have met up to time t. For d > 2, this is constant, but for d < 2 it decays as a power t, which we compute to O(ε) in an...

Vicious Chronicles of Virology

Presented in this article, aimed at both the virologists and non-virologists among the readers, are the dark episodes of virology. These anecdotes overshadow, in comparison, the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb explosions, both in impact and magnitude. Needless-tosay, the episodes listed here involve viruses and may represent re-recording of largest outbreaks of some viral infectio...

Vicious Circles in Disease

Breaking a vicious cycle.

Despite prodigious advances in tumor biology research, few tumor-biomarker tests have been adopted as standard clinical practice. This lack of reliable tests stems from a vicious cycle of undervaluation, resulting from inconsistent regulatory standards and reimbursement, as well as insufficient investment in research and development, scrutiny of biomarker publications by journals, and evidence ...

Vicious Circles of Care

So often the mentally abnormal offender shuffles from Prison to mental hospitals, which he may have only ( JUst left a few weeks before, to pass into the hands of | *his mythical community care. As the number of hospital beds decreases, psychil atric patients, who have spent a greater part of their j 1'ves in the supportive, protective care of the mental hospital, leave to return into the world...