A new variant of a branching process is introduced, with sufficient conditions for it to persist and to die out. The model is applied to discuss the asymptotic stability of a new type of queuing process.

The so-called "pristine" bullet (Warren Commission Exhibit 399), which critics have been claiming could not have penetrated both President Kennedy's neck and Governor Connally's thorax and wrist and still remain undeformed, was found by these investigators to be, in fact, deformed (flattened) in a manner which required great force to duplicate on test bullets from the same lots. The four fragme...

Black ink. The defamation of Gaius Caligula This article analyses how ancient media were used for the character assassination Roman emperor Caligula. Why was Caligula’s reputation so severely damaged? How this done? In complicated situation in which came to power, Augustan system an autocratic rule hidden behind a republican veil pushed aside. As result, conflict between and elite became insupe...