EG: In the past year, six companies started selling telepresence robots [1]. I tested two of the robots myself, discussing at length their technical merits as well as their practical shortcomings. Telepresence robots didn’t come out of nowhere; they stem froma convergence of different technologies, each with its own history. The advent of robotic telepresence also reflects a powerful trend wher...

I A p.Adic Cohomological Melhod for the i Weierstrass Family and Its Zeta Invariants I I GOROKATO Dedicated 10 my parents. ABSTRACT. Arter a survey of the Weierstrass family and cohomology, we compute lhe lifted homology of lhe Weierstrass family wilh compact supports so that explicit formulae for the zeta function of each fibre of the Weierstrass family may be obtained. The (co-)homology theor...

Christofer Hoff: Well, there’s fog and then there’s my favorite analogy of the “goat rodeo,” but I think they’re both relatively accurate. It’s very interesting that this question comes up so many times, and I’ve rehearsed the answer depending on the audience. What I’ve kind of arrived at is that there are two very interesting perspectives to take when answering that question: one from the prov...

Der Berücksichtigung aktueller fachdidaktischer Erkenntnisse in der Lehrerbildung steht all zu häufig das Beharrungsvermögen von Ausbilderinnen gegenüber. Nicht so in der Informatik. Hier wird seit Jahrzehnten nach der »Silver Bullet« gesucht. Ob diese finale Lösung existiert, soll hier nicht diskutiert werden. Es werden Möglichkeiten zur konkreten Umsetzung aktueller Anforderungen fachdidaktis...

CLINICAL CASE We describe the case of a man who, after a gunshot wound to the right facial region, exhibited chorioretinitis sclopetaria of the right eye and a contralateral homonymous hemianopsia. DISCUSSION Chorioretinitis sclopetaria is a rare entity resulting from an ocular injury caused by a bullet passing through the orbit. It is not common to find the condition associated with a damage...

An intravascular bullet was retrieved percutaneously in a 17-year-old boy with the use of a modified 24-F Amplatz dilator. The dilator was modified by means of a longitudinal incision with removal of a wedge at the distal tip of the tapered portion of the dilator. The bullet, which was located in the left pulmonary artery, was removed via the right femoral vein. No complications occurred.

bacteria (and not by host cells), it could be the ‘magic bullet’ of his dreams7. After testing over nine hundred dyes and chemical compounds, the 606 compound (latter named Salvarsan) was found to be effective against the etiological agent of syphilis; but unfortunately such compound toxicity against the host was evidenced. While the ‘606’ comprised a huge advance in the war on microbes, it bec...