Black October

`Black October': the impact of the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 on South Africa

In particular, the modern histories of specific diseases offer ideal ground for a union of diverging sub-disciplines, and Victoria Harden's immensely readable and scholarly monograph on Rocky Mountain spotted fever elegantly demonstrates that a successful integration is possible. Beginning with the disease itself-a virulent, seasonal, and unpredictable affliction of the Bitterroot Valley in Mon...

cover 16-5 October 2019

October 2000

Introducing a concept of real, as opposed to nominal, inequality of income or wealth suggests some historical reinterpretations, buttressed by a closer look at consumption by the rich. The purchasing powers of different income classes depend on how relative prices move. The influence of relative prices on real inequality was greater in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries than in the twen...

Cover 17-5 October 2020

October, 2001

We study the two-body and three-body charmful baryonic B decays: B 0 → Λc p̄ and B → Λc p̄ π(ρ). The factorizable W -exchange contribution to B 0 → Λc p̄ is negligible. Applying the bag model to evaluate the baryon-to-baryon weak transition matrix element, we find B(B → Λc p̄) <∼ 2.5 × 10−5|gB0pΣ+b /8| 2 with gB0pΣ+ b being a strong coupling for the decay Σb → B 0 p and hence the predicted branchin...