On December 7, 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy unleashed a surprise aerial attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The United States Navy immediately launched a program to teach aircraft recognition so that military personnel and civilian spotters could distinguish friend from foe in a split second [1]. Millions of model airplanes representing more than 220 types were ...

During World War II and the brutal experience of German attacks against civilians on the home front, Britain underwent a consequential, yet unstudied, development. This total war elevated British psychoanalysis to a role not enjoyed anywhere else in the world. Under the shock of bombing and evacuation, exiled continental analysts such as Anna Freud (Sigmund Freud’s daughter) and Melanie Klein a...

(Enterobacteriaceae Center of Japan) Dysentery cases have been increasing in Japan since the end of the second world war. Especially in the year 1951, reported cases were largest during these years. The present paper is dealing with the typing of Shigella strains isolated in Japan during the year 1951, and forwarded to our laboratory mostly for type-identification and partly to meet our request...

Alvin W. Gouldner (1920--1980) was a prolific sociologist of the post-World War II era who spent the early part of his career (the 1950s) in the field of industrial sociology. A case study of Gouldner's early life and career is useful insofar as it intertwines with the development of industrial sociology as a distinct subfield within sociology. Through this analysis we are also better able to u...

BACKGROUND In higher income countries, social disadvantage is associated with higher arthritis prevalence; however, less is known about arthritis prevalence or determinants in low to middle income countries (LMICs). We assessed arthritis prevalence by age and sex, and marital status and occupation, as two key parameters of socioeconomic position (SEP), using data from the World Health Organizat...

Globalization, widely cited as the dominant international economic trend of the post-World War II era, is deeply connected with the opening of the world economy. The relationship between trade and growth has been intensively debated in the economic literature, within the fields of economics, sociology, political sciences, and others. However, in the areas of International Business (IB) and mana...