long-term mechanical circulatory support is a life-saving technology while briding to heart transplantation. it increases the quality of life and preserves end-organ function for patients with  advanced heart failure. the number of patients with advanced heart failure scheduled for heart transplantation before comorbidities escalate is on the rise. however, the device function is complicated by...

Late Stalinism, the period between the end of the Second World War and the death of the dictator in 1953, was the most isolated period of Soviet history. The political leaders saw the world as divided into two parts, and everything outside their own camp as ruled by unalterably hostile capitalist and imperialist war-mongers, eager to annihilate the Soviet Union. Internationalism, once a fundame...

After distinguishing several ways in which the notion of the moral roots of citizenship and citizenship education can be understood, this paper focuses on the question ‘Is there some underlying attitude that citizens should have towards their fellow citizens?’. It argues for respect, rather than love or care, as being the appropriate attitude, in part on the grounds that the emphasis on respect...

MÖSSBAUER EVIDENCE FOR VARIABILITY IN THE OXIDATION STATE OF ADIRONDACK LAVAS. R. V. Morris, G. A. McKay, D. W. Ming, G. Klingelhöfer, C. Schröder, D. Rodionov, and A. Yen. ARES, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058 ([email protected]). Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Analytische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 9, 55128 Mainz, Germany. Jet Propulsion ...

für Naturforschung in cooperation with the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Dieses Werk wurde im Jahr 2013 vom Verlag Zeitschrift für Naturforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. digitalisiert und unter folgender Lizenz veröffentlicht: Creative Commons Namen...

A workshop on ‘The analysis of data’ was held in Edinburgh during the Joint Meeting of The Biochemical Society, the Gesellschaft fur Biologische Chemie and the Schweizerische Gesellschaft fur Biochemie (September 9-12, 1975). This workshop was organized by B. Hess, Max-Planck-Institute, Dortmund, and J. H. Ottaway, University of Edinburgh. Most of the material contained in the individual papers...

Elena Aksel,z Peter Jakes, Emre Erdem, Donald M. Smyth, Andrew Ozarowski, Johan van Tol, Jacob L. Jones,z and Rüdiger-A. Eichel zDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstr. 21, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bet...