ACS vs. Chicago

In Focus: Award Symposium for Dr Gerry Brooks at the ACS 233rd National Meeting, Chicago, March 24-29, 2007.

Life Satisfaction of Downtown High-Rise vs. Suburban Low-Rise Living: A Chicago Case Study

There has been a long-standing debate about whether urban living is more or less sustainable than suburban living, and quality of life (QoL) is one of several key measures of the social sustainability of residential living. However, to our knowledge, no study to date has examined life satisfaction among residents of downtown high-rise living compared to residents living in suburban low-rise hou...

Multicentered Chicago

GROWTH OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA (MAP) E N T R I E S M Multicentered Chicago Next Chicagoans like to think of their home as “multiethnic,” or as “the city of neighborhoods.” Indeed, the celebration of neighborhood is one of the binding rituals of Chicago culture. The shelves of local bookstores are crammed with neighborhood guides of various sorts, and in the 1990s Mayor Richard M. Daley harness...

Persistent Wheeze Following ACS.

A 70 year-old hypertensive diabetic female from Muscat with a past medical history of a stroke since 9 years ago and is on lisinopril, frusemide and insulin was presented to the emergency room (ER) with dyspnoea which developed three days earlier together with cough and fever. She had attended a local health centre where she was prescribed amoxycillin and erythromycin for community acquired pne...

ACS/WFC Crosstalk

The ACS/WFC detector consists of two CCDs, each of which is read out through two amplifiers. While reading each quadrant of the detector, the electronic crosstalk between the amplifiers induces faint, typically negative, mirror-symmetric ghost images on the other three quadrants. The effect is strongest for high-signal offending (source) pixels. Analysis of the pre-SM4 crosstalk showed that its...