Authors’ Note: The present research was supported by a grant from Deutsche Fo (AZ Ru 599/2-1). We wish to thank Muriel Helbig, Franzisca Pohl, and Mandy Ti tion and coding. Many thanks to Michael Conway, Howard Giles, Gordon Harold Mansur Lalljee, Bernard Weiner, Peter White, Isabell Winkler, and two anonym helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. Correspondence concerning addresse...

K. O’Neill,1 J. G. Venegas,1 T. Richter,3 R. S. Harris,2 J. D. H. Layfield,1 G. Musch,1 T. Winkler,3 and M. F. Vidal Melo1 1Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, and 2Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114; and 3Clinic of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Clinic C...

On cloud modelling and the mass accommodation coefficient of water A. Laaksonen, T. Vesala, M. Kulmala, P. M. Winkler, and P. E. Wagner Department of Applied Physics, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5, ...

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