Stemming from one creative experience that emerged in London during the lockdown period of early 2020, called “Emergency Festival”, this article is a result observations based on practice, centred around festival group multicultural, interdisciplinary movement-based researchers and dancers created, curated, participated in. It explores possibility making radical alterity out hitherto previously...

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1 The 5 VAST Challenge consisted of three mini-challenges that involved both intelligence analysis and bioinformatics. Teams could solve one, two or all three mini-challenges and assess the overall situation to enter the Grand Challenge. Mini-challenge one involved text reports about people and events giving information about arms dealers, situations in various countries and linkages between di...

Modeling real-world scenarios is a challenge for traditional social science researchers, as it is often hard to capture the intricacies and dynamisms of real-world situations without making simplistic assumptions. This imposes severe limitations on the capabilities of such models and frameworks. Complex population dynamics during natural disasters such as pandemics is an area where computationa...

61 Volume 15, Number 1 are new, containing well-written, current, and relevant content. The Special Topics content from the second edition can now either be accessed as eTopics online or has been incorporated into the main chapters’ text directly, so this useful content from the second edition remains accessible. A primary strength of this edition continues to be the emphasis on microbiology as...

The recent discovery of a new strain of swine flu (officially known as influenza A/H1N1/Mexico City 2009) and the ensuing epidemic demonstrate the collective vulnerability of humankind to pandemic spread of respiratory viruses. We have been planning for pandemic influenza for decades and it is now upon us. This new strain is a hybrid virus, with its major surface hemagglutinin antigen sequences...

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