“Then There Was War:” John Hejduk’s The Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism

Alanine: then there was water.

An ab initio study of the addition of successive water molecules to the amino acid l-alanine in both the nonionized (N) and zwitterionic (Z) forms are presented. The main focus is the number of waters needed to stabilize the Z form and how the solvent affects conformational preference. The solvent is modeled by ab initio electronic structure theory, the EFP (effective fragment potential) model,...

John Hull Grundy lecture. Mosquitoes, malaria and war; then and now.

In his foreword to the final volume of the Official Medical History of the Second World War Sir Austin Bradford-Hill, quoted the well known truth, that throughout history, victory or defeat in war has often been swayed by disease. He also stressed that during the fateful years 1940-1945, the prevention of illness had been one of the characteristics of the military medical services. There is lit...

John Hull Grundy Lecture Mosquitoes , Malaria and War ; Then and Now

In his foreword to the final volume of the Official Medical History of the Second World War Sir Austin Bradford-Hill, quoted the well known truth, that throughout history, victory or defeat in war has often been swayed by disease. He also stressed that during the fateful years 1940-1945, the prevention of illness had been one of the characteristics of the military medical services. There is lit...

And then there was one: comments on the price rise for MAA and DTPA.

If “it” were “then”, then when was “it”? Establishing the anaphoric role of “then”

The adverb ”then” is among the most frequent English temporal adverbs, being also capable of filling a variety of semantic roles. The identification of anaphoric usages of ”then” is important for temporal expression resolution, while the temporal relationship usage is important for event ordering. Given that previous work has not tackled the identification and temporal resolution of anaphoric ”...