TheRStudent Companion

Workshop: Companion-Systeme und Mensch-Companion-Interaktion

Einführung: Unter Companion-Systemen verstehen wir kognitive technische Systeme, die ihre Funktionalität vollkommen individuell auf den jeweiligen Nutzer abstimmen: Sie orientieren sich an seinen Fähigkeiten, Vorlieben, Anforderungen und aktuellen Bedürfnissen und stellen sich auf seine Situation und emotionale Befindlichkeit ein. Sie sind stets verfügbar, kooperativ und vertrauenswürdig und tr...

Companion Animals

The objective of this study was to evaluate body composition in small breeds of dogs as compared with larger breeds. Body composition by Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) was performed in 34 adult small and toy breed dogs. Results were compared with data obtained from 41 Beagles and 6 Labrador retrievers. Body weight, bone density, total calcium, fat grams, lean grams and bone mineral con...

Companion Cells

Companion cells represent a major component of the phloem, the plant vascular tissue system responsible for long-distance transport of organic nutrients from the sites of synthesis (source organs) to sites of utilization (sink organs). The companion cells are intimately associated with phloem sieve elements, which make up the actual transport vessel (sieve tube) through which mass flow of assim...

Prescriber's Companion

Companion to Neonatal Medicine

THIS short book is one of a series of three volumes summarizing the principles of obstetrics, gynaecology and neonatal medicine. It is essentially a book of lists written by two doctors: "a medical adviser to a major pharmaceutical company," and "a physiological laboratory worker" respectively. The authors and their colleagues are said to have conceived this book during their 'shop-floor' exper...