The Berlin Crises 1948-1949

On epidemiology of murine typhus in Saitama 1948, in Niigata 1949 and multiple occurrence of murine typhus in one family.

Epidemic (louse-borne) typhus can clinically and epidemiologically be differentiated from murine (fleaborne) typhus, but the differentiation may sometimes be impossible without the aids of serological tests or isolation of the causative agent. Many typhus-fever-like cases were observed in Saitama and Niigata Prefectures. They first were mistaken as epidemic typhus cases because they were report...

Geopolitical Changes and Crises in The Caucasus

The Caucasus has seen numerous crises since the region gained independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some of these crises have not been resolved yet as evidenced by recent Russia-Georgia conflict. This paper seeks to analyze such crises within the framework of significant geopolitical changes unfolded by the collapse of the Soviet Union. The author argues that in the post-Sovi...

The British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1949

Melting Pots: Berlin Digital meets Berlin Culture

Forming, storming, norming and performing [1] – a well-known phase-modulation model of team building is probably reliable to describe the changeful relationship of Berlin Cultural and Berlin Digital in the Melting Pot of the metropolis. The pretty, shy bride awkwardly meets a nerdy, hyperactive groom when after the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989, the wedding looms on the horizon:...

The Berlin SPARQL Benchmark

The SPARQL Query Language for RDF and the SPARQL Protocol for RDF are implemented by a growing number of storage systems and are used within enterprise and open Web settings. As SPARQL is taken up by the community, there is a growing need for benchmarks to compare the performance of storage systems that expose SPARQL endpoints via the SPARQL protocol. Such systems include native RDF stores as w...