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Time, travel and infection [PDF]
British Medical Bulletin, 2004 The collapse of geographical space over the last 200 years has had profound effects on the circulation of human populations and on the transfer of infectious diseases. Three examples are used to illustrate the process: (a) the impact of the switch from sail to steamships in importing measles into Fiji over a 40-year period; (b) changes in measles ...
Cliff, AD, Haggett, P
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The Future: Missing Children, Time Travel, and Post-Nuclear Apocalypse in the Dark Series (Netflix)
Arts, 2023 The concept of the post-apocalypse, a cultural imagination of nuclear energy, the temporality of trauma, and time travel are linked herein in order to arrive at a political reading of the Dark series.
Tomasz Łysak
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Back to the Present: How Not to Use Counterfactuals to Explain Causal Asymmetry
Philosophies, 2022 A plausible thought is that we should evaluate counterfactuals in the actual world by holding the present ‘fixed’; the state of the counterfactual world at the time of the antecedent, outside the area of the antecedent, is required to match that of the ...
Alison Fernandes
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Is mental time travel real time travel? [PDF]
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 2020 Episodic memory (memories of the personal past) and prospecting the future (anticipating events) are often described as mental time travel (MTT). While most use this description metaphorically, we argue that episodic memory may allow for MTT in at least some robust sense.
Michael Barkasi, Melanie G. Rosen
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What Time-Travel Teaches Us about Future-Bias
Philosophies, 2021 Future-biased individuals systematically prefer positively valenced events to be in the future (positive future-bias) and negatively valenced events to be in the past (negative future-bias).
Kristie Miller
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Mantiq Ut-Tair and Traveling in Time or Traveling in Parallel Universes in Modern Physics [PDF]
ادبیات عرفانی, 2018 Attar’s Mantiq Ut-Tair is a magnificent masterpiece in mystical literature that through presenting the most essential ontological issues invites humans to contemplate them.
Laila Gholampour +2 more
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ReS Futurae, 2018 The time travel genre might be considered as one the major science fiction themes, maybe a sub-genre in itself on account of the invariable characteristics of its variations in litterature, cinema - starting in the fifties- and more recently in ...
Clément Personnic, Yannick Kernec’h
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Travelling in time with COPD [PDF]
Thorax, 2010 In the last 8 years the FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in 1 s) of a ‘typical’ patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has fallen by ∼400 ml. However, the knowledge of those caring for this hypothetical patient has grown rapidly in this same period and Thorax has played a vital role in this change of fortune.
J R, Hurst, P M A, Calverley
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Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2007 This article addresses the cinematic treatment of the Middle Ages through an analysis of two recent mass-audience American films, Black Knight and Timeline, both of which feature time travel as a leading plot element.
John Engle
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On Efficient "Time Travel" in Gödel Spacetime [PDF]
, 2010 Here, we show that one may "time travel" in Gödel spacetime with less total acceleration than was previously known. This answers a question posed by Malament (1985, 1986, 1987)
Manchak, John Byron, John Byron Manchak
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