But it has a close cousin in the form of catastrophe theory, which was sired by René Thom, the French mathematician, who has died aged 79.
The sometimes apocalyptic tone, with the threats of resource wars as well as the more obvious forms of ecological catastrophe, arises from the sense that this debt must at some time be terribly repaid.
Many American novels deal with this form of family catastrophe without going to such logistical extremes.
In England, this has not taken the form of sudden catastrophe, but rather a slow grinding away of species and of subtlety.
The likeliest form of true catastrophe on the planet, after all, involves panicking an armed-to-the-teeth Russia with absurdly overstretched NATO guarantees.
In 2008, when Congress debated a form of national catastrophe fund called the Homeowners Defense Act, presidential candidate Sen. McCain of Arizona argued that since the natural disasters that it was targeting occurred primarily in the south and southeastern part of the United States, the risk should be pooled regionally not nationally.
DICE represents a necrotic form of mitotic catastrophe with signs of apoptosis, 119 autophagy, and senescence (unpublished data).
Damage may take a form of sudden "catastrophe", even though hyperfunctional aging slowly generates diseases for decades.
We reported that DICE has the following properties: DICE represents a necrotic form of mitotic catastrophe with signs of apoptosis, 119 autophagy, and senescence (unpublished data).
Most important, low level of γH2AX indicates an incomplete DNA repair in Fus1−/− cells that may serve as the key event promoting cell death in the form of 'mitotic catastrophe' associated with aberrant mitosis.
