There are large differences in the average age at death of scientists in different specialties whose death-notices appeared in Science from 1958 to 1968. They range from 76.7 for archaeologists to 61.8 for men working with radiation. The average age at death for the entire sample of 2,224 men was 67.7; and 68.1 for the total sample of 93 women. The average age at death was appreciably higher fo...

There are large differences in the average age at death of scientists in different specialties whose death-notices appeared in Science from 1958 to 1968. They range from 76.7 for archaeologists to 61.8 for men working with radiation. The average age at death for the entire sample of 2,224 men was 67.7; and 68.1 for the total sample of 93 women. The average age at death was appreciably higher fo...

In the Children's Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, there is a huge dinosaur's bone. Beneath are three notices? 'This is a dinosaur's bone' 'Touch it' 'Now you can say you have touched a dinosaur's bone' It is with the same feeling of awe that we may take a look at another fascinating old horror?death, as it is presented to us in this wideranging book. In the first of three sections, A. Keith Ma...

David”, Bib 85 (2004) 245-254. () The subclause “(buried) with his ancestors” is not included in the burial notices for David (1 Kgs 2,10), Solomon (11,43), or Abijam (15,8). () B.O. LONG, 1 Kings with an Introduction to Historical Literature (FOTL 9; Grand Rapids, MI 1984) 22-28; see also K.-J. ILLMAN, Old Testament Formulas about Death (Åbo 1979) 37-48. () So R. WEILL, La cité de David. Compt...

Popularly considered a great equalizer, death and the rituals around it nevertheless accentuate social distinctions. The present study focuses on a sample (N = 2554) of death announcements in a major Turkish daily newspaper (Hürriyet) from 1970 to 2006. Out of the liminal position of Turkish death announcements between obituaries and death notices emerges a large decentralized collection of pri...

1. S.L. Bloom, The hyperprojective hierarchy, Notices of the AMS, Vol. 15(1968), 343. 2. S.L. Bloom, Theories of kind W, Notices of the AMS, 16(1969), 507. 3. S.L. Bloom, D. Brown, Classical abstract logics I, Notices of the AMS, 18(1971), 827. 4. S.L. Bloom, D. Brown, Classical abstract logics II, Notices of the AMS, 18(1971), 968. 5. S.L. Bloom, R. Suszko, D. Brown, Structurality, substitutio...

Privacy policies are often too long and difficult to understand, and are therefore ignored by users. Shorter privacy notices with clearer wording may increase users’ privacy awareness, particularly for emerging mobile and wearable devices with small screens. In this paper, we examine the potential of (1) shortening privacy notices, by removing privacy practices that a large majority of users ar...