Zu OLZ XV, Sp. 145

Xv Xvi

-Monetary policy operates in a different environment than it did a decade ago. Financial market innovations have eroded the distinctions among monetary assets, making the definition of money increasingly arbitrary. Deregulation of interest rates and banking activity is changing the behavior of the monetary aggregates, as banks pay interest on monetary assets and nonbanks offer monetary-like ass...

XV. Geriatrics

Xv. Neurophysiology*

Resting squid nerve membrane actively extrudes Na+ against a large concentration gradient, while another cation, K + , is concentrated passively within the cell by the Donnan equilibrium. During the passage of an impulse, large transient current flows across the membrane; some K + leaves, some Na + enters, but which ions carry the current at which instant, and how it is turned on and off cannot...

Xv Xvi

The stock market crash of 1987 sent shock waves through the world's financial markets. Stock exchanges in New York, Chicago, London, Tokyo, Frankfurt, and a host of other cities suffered major declines. In response, credit markets, commodity markets, and foreign exchange markets registered sharp swings. Not since the Great Depression had the world seen such turmoil in financial markets. But, dr...

Xv. Neurology

Recent advances in digital computation techniques have made it possible to approach the problem of automatic diagnosis of the clinical electrocardiogram (EKG) with confidence that a solution will be found. Our research has been mainly concerned with the application of adaptive matched-filter pattern-recognition techniques to EKG diagnosis. In previous publications we have (a) shown that the mul...