WAR TIME BREWING PROBLEMS

Some Post-War Psychological Problems

THERE is a great deal of discussion and speculation to-day about post-war conditions, and especially about the future of our own profession. Post-war planning and reconstruction, the re-moulding of our spitfires and hurricanes back into pots and pans, the return of our fighting men from the adventures and excitements of war to the steady pursuits of peace, present us with problems which we will...

Death in War Time

Celiac Disease, Beer and Brewing

Celiac disease, also called celiac sprue, is an auto-immune disease in which a reaction to a sequence of amino acids in prolamins, especially gliadin of wheat gluten, causes deformation of absorptive villae of the small intestine. As a result, nutrients are poorly absorbed. Children fail to thrive and, in the adult-onset form of the disease, intense intestinal distress is a characteristic, with...

War of attrition with implicit time cost.

In the game-theoretic model war of attrition, players are subject to an explicit cost proportional to the duration of contests. We construct a model where the time cost is not explicitly given, but instead depends implicitly on the strategies of the whole population. We identify and analyse the underlying mechanisms responsible for the implicit time cost. Each player participates in a series of...

Bactericidal effect of the war-time penny.