Editorial 11-05

02 Saper 05-11

1257 In 1916, Baron Constantin von Economo, a Viennese neurologist, began to see patients with a new type of encephalitis that specifically attacked regions of the brain that regulate sleep and wakefulness. This disorder, which was eventually called encephalitis lethargica or von Economo’s sleeping sickness, swept through Europe and North America during the second decade of the twentieth centur...

Local Anaesthetic Pharmacology 11 / 07 / 05

Local anaesthetic drugs are used widely for the provision of anaesthesia and analgesia both intraand post-operatively. Understanding the pharmacology of these agents as a group, as well as the differences between specific drugs, enables the anaesthetist to use them safely to maximum effect. This tutorial focuses on the basic structure and function of local anaesthetics. Learning will be improve...

HPI Kolloquium 05 . 11 . 2015 , 16

Software systems today support complex processes and interactions between humans and machines in many different variants, from the embedded controller in a pace maker to the hospital workflow system. On the one hand, these process-aware information systems often operate in unpredictable and changing contexts which calls for both flexibility and adaptability. On the other hand, it is getting mor...

The Wellesley News (1925-11-05)

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS DFUB 13/2002 Bologna, 05/11/02

The main issues in non-accelerator astroparticle physics are reviewed and discussed. A short description is given of the experimental methods, of many experiments and of their experimental results.