Claus von Holt (1925–2009)

Matthew Holt

Bringing to light the difference between birth and nation, the refugee causes the secret presupposition of the political domain—bare life—to appear for an instant within that domain. In this sense, the refugee is truly ‘the man of rights,’ as Arendt suggests, the first and only real appearance of rights outside the fiction of the citizen that always covers them over. Yet this is precisely what ...

Dynamic Asset Allocation ∗ Claus

Higher - Order ( Non - ) Modularity Claus

We show that, contrary to the situation in first-order term rewriting, almost none of the usual properties of rewriting are modular for higher-order rewriting, irrespective of the higher-order rewriting format. We show that for the particular format of simply typed applicative term rewriting systems modularity of confluence, normalization, and termination can be recovered by imposing suitable l...

The Holt-Oram syndrome.

The classical description of this syndrome of upper limb abnormalities and congenital heart lesions was by Holt and Oram in 1960.1 They were from King's College Hospital in London and reported a four generation family with nine affected subjects. Many other families were then recognised to have the same condition, which led to a series of reports in the early 1960s. The names atriodigital dyspl...

Holt-Oram syndrome.

A29-year-old woman presented with dizziness. Physical and radiographic examinations showed skeletal hand malformations, ie, digitalized triphalangeal thumbs and dystrophy of the carpal bones. When she was 15 years old, an atrial septal defect had been repaired. ECG recordings showed abnormalities of atrial excitation such as a wandering pacemaker, atrial ectopic activity, AV-nodal block, and si...