Limburg dialects of Dutch have two distinctive tonal contours on syllables with primary stress. These tones are traditionally called Schleifton (‘dragging tone’) and Stosston (‘bumping tone’), but here we will use the terms ‘level high tone’ and ‘falling tone’.1 The tones fall on the stressed syllable in the word, and serve to distinguish between minimal pairs. The following examples are from t...

With regard to the second law of thermodynamics, as given by equation (6), it should be noted that the sign "is greater than" applies to the case of a system which is approaching the condition of thermodynamic equilibrium and implies a difference between "forward" and "backward" directions for the time-like coordinate x4. The equality sign, on the other hand, may characterize either a system wh...

For the space of long knots in R, Vassiliev’s theory defines the so called finite order cocycles. Zero degree cocycles are finite type knot invariants. The first non-trivial cocycle of positive dimension in the space of long knots has dimension one and order three. We apply Vassiliev’s combinatorial formula, given in [1], and find the value mod2 of this cocycle on the 1-cycles that are obtained...

In this note we reply to the criticisms by Sindoni, Paris and Ialongo concerning some aspects of the recent frame-dragging test performed by Iorio with the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft in the gravitational field of Mars.

Drop attack (DA) associated with Ménière's disease (MD) and delayed endolymphatic hydrops (DEH) is not common and may cause life-threatening clinical problems. The intratympanic dexamethasone (ITD) is one of primary treatments for MD or DEH. Our study investigated the effect of ITD on the DA associated with endolymphatic hydrops (EH).We retrospectively reviewed 10 patients with MD- and DEH-asso...

PURPOSE Corpus callosotomy can be an effective surgical treatment for medically intractable generalized seizures, particularly for drop attacks. We studied long-term seizure outcomes after callosotomy, mainly focusing on drop attacks as the seizure type. METHODS This study reviews 78 patients who underwent callosotomy and were followed up for more than 3 years after surgery. Seizure outcome o...

In recent years the widespread availability of wireless communications, mobile computing and handheld devices has led to the growth and significance of wireless mobile ad hoc networks. Security issues are paramount in such networks even more so than in wired networks. Though there have been many works in the recent years on secure routing protocols, the “Packet Drop Attack” amongst the nodes is...