The Bohr compactification and the Bohr topology are well known for groups, but they can easily be generalized to arbitrary structures. We prove a number of theorems about Bohr topologies in this general setting. Some of these results are new even for groups; for example, the weight of the Bohr compactification of a countable structure is either countable or continuum. In some cases, theorems ab...

Zusammenfassung Die ambulante psychoonkologische Versorgung von Krebs-Patienten hat sich in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten zu einem fest integrierten Bestandteil der psychosozialen Betreuung von Tumor-Patienten entwickelt. Ambulante Versorgungsmöglichkeiten umfassen psychosoziale Krebsberatungsstellen, Institutsund Hochschulambulanzen sowie psychotherapeutische Versorgung. Das Angebotsspektru...

Quantum theory shares with classical probability theory many important properties. I show that this common core regards at least the following six areas, and I provide details on each of these: the logic of propositions, symmetry, probabilities, composition of systems, state preparation and reductionism. The essential distinction between classical and quantum theory, on the other hand, is shown...

The Chinese government aims to deal with poverty by 2020 for people living in ethnic and rural regions, including mountainous ethnic regions with the highest concentration of poverty and chronic poverty. Based on a sustainable livelihood Framework, five capitals and 33 evaluation indices of livelihood were built, and 13 counties’ resources of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture were...

works relating to Public Health and Epidemiology; and, on the formation of the Epidemiological Society, he at once identified himself warmly with the work it had taken up. Having for many years given much attention to the subject of vaccination, he was appointed, together with Dr. Babington and others, as a member of the Small-pox and Vaccination Committee appointed by the Society, and it is we...

Rabbit production in Europe is concentrated largely in the "Latin" countries of Italy, France and Spain, in which animal protectionist attitudes are considered moderate. However, in the case of rabbits, the intensification of husbandry necessitates strict observance of physiological, behavioural and health requirements, in view of the very special needs of the species and the sensitivity of rab...

Until recently, colonial historiography has primarily examined imperi­ alism from the perspective of Europeans and downplayed the agency and role of indigenous peoples. In Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade, John R. Bockstoce examines the interactions that occurred be­ tween natives of the Bering Strait region and fo...

S.A. Plotkin (ed.), History of Vaccine Development, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1339-5_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 The first reliable record of smallpox in China can be dated to the fifteenth century [1]. By early Song period, around the tenth century, smallpox had become essentially a childhood disease, but it remained one of the most fatal childhood diseases until the nineteenth...

• Slits, li • Intersection of 2 planes, defined by their parametric coordinates ui and vi ; • For horizontal slit, in the pox-slits model, • For vertical slit, in the pox-slits model, • Z1 and Z2 are the distance that each slit are from the image plane. • Equation, represented by the dual Plücker matrices, is • Projection ray, • Intersection of the planes formed by a 3D Point, P, and each slit;...