RACE AGAINST FAMINE

The race against time

Understanding and Preventing Famine and Famine Mortality

Race Against the Machine [Further Thoughts]

In the last decades, the computational theory of reinforcement learning (RL) has been pivotal in the research of operant learning. Normative considerations, and quantitative modeling based on RL methods, have motivated a growing community of neuroscientists, psychologists, and economists to study behavior, and its neural correlates, with ever increasing accuracy and sophistication. This great e...

The race against the "septic shark".

Great white sharks are responsible for about 10 cases of death annually worldwide, as compared with millions of deaths caused by sepsis. However, the basic principles of avoiding shark attacks and fighting sepsis seem to be similar: avoidance, attention, and speed, if necessary. The present review discusses the current status of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria, which...

Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from Ireland, 1845-1850

10740 words This is an abbreviated version of a paper given at a conference on famine demography at Les Treilles, France, 25-30 May 1999. The longer version is available as Mokyr and Ó Gráda, 1999. We are grateful to co-participants for their comments.