The Virgin Jocasta

The Virgin Island Model

A continuous mass population model with local competition is constructed where every emigrant colonizes an unpopulated island. The population founded by an emigrant is modeled as excursion from zero of an one-dimensional diffusion. With this excursion measure, we construct a process which we call Virgin Island Model. A necessary and sufficient condition for extinction of the total population is...

The 1867 Virgin Island Tsunami

The 1867 Virgin Island Tsunami reached large magnitude on the coasts of the Caribbean Islands. A maximum tsunami height of 10 m was reported for two coastal locations (Deshaies and Sainte-Rose) in Guadeloupe. Modelling of the 1867 tsunami is performed in the framework of the nonlinear shallow-water theory. The directivity of the tsunami wave source in the Caribbean Sea according to the assumed ...

The Ætiology of Leucorrhœa in the Virgin

no glands in the vaginal epithelium?is white, cheesy, highly acid in reaction and consists of epithelial squames, Doderlein's vaginal bacilli, some transudate and lactic acid. The lactic acid, which is responsible for the high acidity, results from the breaking down of glycogen in the vaginal epithelial cells, probably by bacterial action. These conditions are found in the vagina during reprodu...

Virgin of Guadalupe

Virgin vs. Experienced Risks

Introduction Every day we face a multitude of risks. Some we have experienced before; some we have not. Some we have contemplated; others have never crossed our mind. In this essay, we define four types of risk based on these two dimensions: whether or not they have occurred and whether or not we have contemplated them. These four classes of risks are shown in Figure 1. Individual and societal ...