Unsettling Oceania, 250 Years Later: Introduction

Indoor radon entry: 30 years later

The paper discusses the results of 30 years of radon indoor entry research. While some progress has been made, many discrepancies between current theories and experimental data still remain. Misconceptions of radon transport mechanisms in homes are analyzed. The role of US Environmental Protection Agency in radon indoor entry research is examined and the agency's policies are criticize...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Software Engineering Project Management 20 Years Later

Forum: German Home Towns, Forty Years Later Introduction

THEidea of publicly recognizing an important milestone in the life of Mack Walker’s book German Home Towns, which appeared in 1971, goes back to January 2011 when David Luebke and Yair Mintzker put out a call for papers to discuss “German Home Towns—Forty Years Later” at the upcoming meeting of the German Studies Association (GSA) in Louisville, Kentucky.1 The robust response to their call conf...

An introduction to "9/11: ten years later".

A decade has passed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Most of us remember where we were when we learned of the attacks, although our memories of the event and of our feelings that day may not be as accurate as we suspect (Hirst et al., 2009). The attacks of 9/11 did far more than destroy buildings and kill thousands of innocent people. They interrupted routine patterns and tugg...

CBCD: 25 years later!

In 1988, a handful of idealists led by Prof. Dr. Henrique Walter Pinotti then Head Professor of Digestive Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo founded an prestigious organization that today all know, which is the BRAZILIAN COLLEGE OF DIGESTIVE SURGERY CBCD. These selfless whose naes can be seen in Figure 1, are or were university professors committed to the teaching of General ...