2 Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy Goethe10 University, Heinrich-Hoffmann-Straße 10, D-60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 11 12 13 14 * Corresponding author: Julia Volkert, MSc 15 Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, 16 University of Wuerzburg, 17 Fuechsleinstrasse 15, D-97080 Wuerzburg, Germany, 18 Tel: ++49-931-20177540, 19 Email: Volkert...

A case of plasma cell myeloma involving the middle phalanx of the ring finger is reported. This was a case of a non-secretory myeloma; however, monoclonal immunoglobulins were demonstrated by immunohistochemical studies. Plasma cell myeloma with phalangeal involvement is extremely rare: our literature search disclosed only two well-documented cases. Plasma cell myeloma may occur in the hand, so...

The competition between strong localization and radiative damping is studied for surface-plasmon polaritons propagating along a finite, randomly rough metallic surface that is periodic on average, by means of both numerical simulations and perturbation-theoretic calculations. Our results show that localization is the predominant contribution to the exponential decay of the transmission. In addi...

In word sense disambiguation (WSD), the heuristic of choosing the most common sense is extremely powerful because the distribution of the senses of a word is often skewed. The problem with using the predominant, or first sense heuristic, aside from the fact that it does not take surrounding context into account, is that it assumes some quantity of handtagged data. Whilst there are a few hand-ta...

Lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin's lymphoma (LPHL) differs in histologic and clinical presentation from classical Hodgkin's lymphoma (cHL). Treatment of LPHL patients using standard Hodgkin's lymphoma protocols leads to complete remission in more than 95% of patients. Survival and freedom from treatment failure are substantially worse in advanced-stage patients than for early-stage patients. Thus...

Two hundred ambulant diabetic patients (152 females and 48 males) were screened for significant bacteriuria by bacterial colony count method. Significant bacteriuria was found in 13% (24 females and 2 males). E.coli was the predominant organism isolated in 17 out of 28 cases. A higher relative frequency of past history of renal disorders and hypertension was seen in the group with significant b...