The Annals at Fifty

Voting at fifty-fifty and the Contrarian Effect

A sociophysical model for opinion dynamics is shown to embody a series of recent western hung national votes all set at the unexpected and very improbable edge of a fifty-fifty score. It started with the Bush-Gore 2000 American presidential election, followed by the 2002 Stoiber-Schrőder, then the 2005 Schrőder-Merkel German elections, and finally the 2006 Prodi-Berlusconi Italian elections. In...

Chaos at fifty

The universality of Medicaid at fifty.

FIFTY AT FIFTY: long term patterns of participation and volunteering among the 1958 NCDS Cohort at age 50

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New developments at the Annals of Occupational Hygiene.

Several new developments at the Annals of Occupa tional Hygiene (AOH) over the past year may be of interest to the readership. First, welcome to Ms Sarah Pyle as our new Editorial Manager. Sarah comes to the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) and AOH with experience working with an academic publisher in the past, and more recently with training in the law. Sarah takes over from Ms Roz ...