Function word adjacency networks (WANs) are used to study the authorship of plays from the Early Modern English period. In these networks, nodes are function words and directed edges between two nodes represent the likelihood of ordered co-appearance of the two words. For every analyzed play a WAN is constructed and these are aggregated to generate author profile networks. We first study the si...

AIM To carry out comparative molecular genetic analysis of highly pathogenic atypical Vibrio cholerae strains biovar El Tor, isolated in the territory of RF, in order to determine micro-evolutionary alterations of cholera agent in the modern period. MATERIALS AND METHODS 38 clinical strains have been examined by means of polymerase chain reaction, sequencing and MLVA-analysis. The selected st...

In this paper we review the history of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) during 2008–2017, a period characterized by financial stability, continued growth, and inroads into the new age of simulation. In particular, we trace the modernization of the Conference as well as its expansion outside of the United States for the first time.

Different times produce different historians of medicine and different definitions of their object of research. With the advent of the social history of medicine in the 1970s and the entering of non-medical historians into the field, medical history has widened to encompass the history of health and illness in general with all its diverse topics and approaches. Given the way history reflects pr...