Times Past and Times to Come

Child Life in past Times

ferable struggle to live and the necessity of preserving a healthy verile stock probably stated their attitude to their weaker brethren. Many peoples including the Spartans, elts and Romans, for instance, required all newly born infants to submit to searching ?Crutiny to exclude evidence of poor development and physical defect. Some even lri:iposed rigorous tests of fitness, as for example the ...

Introduction: Poverty and Charity in past Times

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Single-machine scheduling problems with past-sequence-dependent delivery times and position-dependent processing times

We consider single-machine scheduling problems with past-sequence-dependent (p-s-d) job delivery times. The p-s-d delivery time is needed to remove any waiting time-induced adverse effects on the job’s condition (prior to delivering the job to the customer) and it is therefore proportional to the job’s waiting time. We show that single-machine scheduling problems with p-s-d delivery times and w...

Curing and insuring. Essays on illness in past times

argument at this point was that lower smallpox mortality accounted for most-conceivably all-of eighteenth-century England's population growth and was brought about through inoculation, vaccination playing only a minor role. These essays are now of largely historiographic interest since the author-most refreshingly-tells us that he has changed his mind and no longer holds such views, but they co...

Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times (1986).