Tracheal squamous cell carcinoma detected early in a high-risk patient has been treated twice with local neodymium-yttrium aluminium garnet laser therapy with good result so far. Ongoing bronchoscopic monitoring continues.

Transition metal perovskites have been studied for decades because of their unusual electronic and magnetic properties arising from narrow 3d bands and strong Coulomb correlations. The 3d1 perovskites are particularly interesting since despite the lack of multiplet effects similar materials have very different electronic properties: strontium and calcium vanadate are correlated metals with mass...

As far as we know this is the first report on picosecond green-light generation from an actively mode-locked diode-pumped self-doubling neodymium yttrium aluminum borate (NYAB) laser. The pulse width is approximately 100 ps and is limited by imperfect antireflection coating and the intracavity doubling effect. The green average output power of this laser for mode-locked operation was more than ...

Previous work has shown the beneficial effect of yttrium implantation on the oxidation behaviour of chromium oxide forming alloys. Because of the limited applicabihty of Fe-Cr-Ni alloys in sulphur containing gases the effect of yttrium implantation on the aulphidation of Incoloy 800H was studied. In short time tests a significant improvement was observed upon implantation of about 10lh yttrium ...

Photon yields in damp air excited by an electron using a 90 Sr β source are compared with those in dry air. Water vapors considerably reduce the yields, however, a further study is needed to evaluate the effects on the energy estimation of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. The relation of fluorescence efficiency to the life time of de-excitation by radiation is discussed.

In this paper the mechanism of Default Rules for narrowing-based languages proposed in 24] is adapted to lazy narrowing. Every partial deenition of a function can be completed with a default rule. In a concrete function call, the default rule is applicable when the normal ones determine that they cannot compute the value of the call. Furthermore , when the goal has variables the evaluation mech...