Twenty-Third Session, 1886-1887

Twenty - Third Annual Joint Conference

The cholera epidemic as condenser of meanings: urban cultures, clinical narratives, and hygiene policies in Rosario, Argentina, 1886-1887.

This article investigates how the 1886-1887 cholera epidemic in Rosario, Argentina led to discrimination among city spaces associated with foci, the production of certain socio-moral images about the sectors most affected, and the development of emergency clinical practices. Based on analysis of the signifiers used to define areas of segregation, I seek to show how working-class living conditio...

On the Progress of Preventive Medicine during the Victorian Era. Inaugural Address of Session 1887-88

this address, but I shall venture to lay before you some account of that progress, in so far as it has been identified with the development of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology in this kingdom; feeling sure of your interest in an endeavour to place on record, in this Jubilee year, some account of a movement which, whilst it has effected a saving of life, and a prevention of disease on a scal...

Proceedings of the Twenty - third Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive

The concept of deterrence can be defined as the display of possible threats by one party to convince another party to refrain from initiating certain courses of action. The most common deterrent is that of a threat that convinces the adversary not to carry out intended actions because of costly consequences. In a nutshell, deterrence analysis comprises these three factors: • The benefits of a c...

Op-gbev130144 1886..1901

Transposable elements (TEs) are a dominant feature of most flowering plant genomes. Together with other accepted facilitators of evolution, accumulating data indicate that TEs can explain much about their rapid evolution and diversification. Genome size in angiosperms is highly correlated with TE content and the overwhelming bulk (>80%) of large genomes can be composed of TEs. Among retro-TEs, ...