Turning to Karl Jaspers’s 1937 lectures, later published as Philosophy of Existence, this paper examines what might be meant by the colloquial expression “spiritual but not religious”. In doing so, it is argued that while critique organized religion mostly hits mark, critiques religion—as represented here Existenzphilosophie—fail undermine a form genuine spirituality grounded in faith revealed ...

Richard Preston's timing could not have been better. In August 1994, only a few weeks before his new book appeared in bookstores, alarming national newspaper headlines informed the public of a scientist becoming infected with the exotic Sabia arenavirus after a laboratory centrifuge accident at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit. Following the scientist's relatively rapid recovery under ribavirin...

In this note we identify a simple setup from which one may easily infer various decomposition results for queues with interruptions as well as càdlàg processes with certain secondary jump inputs. In particular, this can be done for processes with stationary or stationary and independent increments. It resulted from an attempt to understand these kind of results after having detected an error in...