Depression after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is common (up to 40%) and increases risk of cardiac morbidity and mortality in the first year by more than two fold. However, current scarcity of data on etiopathogenesis of post-CABG depression hampers development of prevention or treatment strategies of post-CABG depression. “Vascular Depression” hypothesis posits that cerebrovascul...

In the last years, acupuncture treatment was mostly covered by public health insurance companies. A definite decision to integrate it into the normal treatment schemes is expected for the next months. And physicians who completed an acupuncture course may officially add acupuncture to their title. But there is no official recognition of Ayurveda at all. Nevertheless, private insurance companies...

Medical ethics in the Federal Republic of Germany is characterized by two recurrent themes: a deontological emphasis on the physician's duty; and a conception of the patient as needy and help seeking, morally and biologically inferior to the physician. The philosophical and historical underpinnings of contemporary German attitudes toward euthanasia and the physician-patient relationship are d...

In many federations, fiscal equalization schemes soften fiscal imbalances across the member states. Such schemes usually imply that the member states internalize only a small fraction of the additional tax revenue from an expansion of the state-specific tax bases, while the remainder of the additional tax revenue is redistributed horizontally or vertically. We address the question as to which e...

T he collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 marked the beginning of a global financial crisis that has since affected the world economy and nations’ finances. Even major economies such as the USA or Japan have been struggling with the aftermath of the events that started in 2008 while many European countries still suffer from high unemployment, recession and strained budgets. The crisis has also h...

In this paper I establish a link between kl-one-based knowledge representation concerned with terminological representation and the work of P. Suppes (1976, 1979, 1981) and M. Böttner (1985, 1989) in computational linguistics. I show how this link can be utilised for the problem of finding adequate terminological representations for given information formulated in ordinary English.