J Skoda was born in Pilsen, Bohemia, to a locksmith, who lacked funds for the higher education of his three sons. Remarkably, each son acquired stature, respect and enviable position in the society, despite initial adversity. Joseph and elder brother Franz studied medicine. Franz advanced to public health officialdom and a Royal title. Younger brother Johann turned to heavy industry and founded...

Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington KY 40506-0044, USA; Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles CA 90095-1563, USA; Department of Psychiatry/ Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA; Department of Psycholog...

We use a 2D drift-diffusion model to study the nonlinear response of a partially depleted absorber (PDA) phododetector. The model includes external loading, incomplete ionization, the Franz-Keldysh effect, and history-dependent impact ionization. It also takes into account heat flow in the device. With all these effects included, we obtain excellent agreement with experiments for the responsivi...

Examination of the type series (holotype and single paratype) of Eutheia siamensis Franz (Thailand) revealed that it was composed of two different species, belonging not only in different genera, but also tribes. The holotype is a representative of Cephennomicrus Reitter (Cephenniini), while the paratype is a species of Paraneseuthia Franz (Eutheiini). Consequently, E. siamensis is redescribed ...

In electrically conductive solids, the Wiedemann-Franz law requires the electronic contribution to thermal conductivity to be proportional to electrical conductivity. Violations of the Wiedemann-Franz law are typically an indication of unconventional quasiparticle dynamics, such as inelastic scattering, or hydrodynamic collective motion of charge carriers, typically pronounced only at cryogenic...

Topical therapy of onychomycosis, a fungal infection of nail plate and/or nail bed, offers an attractive alternative to treatment with systemic antifungals. To treat fungal infections locally, antifungal-loaded nail lacquers have been prepared in our laboratory. Franz diffusion cells have been used to investigate drug permeation from such lacquers into and through the nail plate in vitro. Altho...

A common way of speeding up powder diffraction measurements is the use of one- or two-dimensional detectors. This usually goes hand in hand with worse resolution and asymmetric peak profiles. In this work the influence of a straight linear detector on the resolution function in the Bragg-Brentano focusing geometry is discussed. Because of the straight nature of most modern detectors geometrical...

The paper summarises the accessible literature on the life and work of well-known American lung surgeon, Professor Dr. Med. Robert Klopstock, who was in the years 1920-1924 a friend Franz Kafka. Professor Klopstock was of Hungarian origin and he got acquainted with Franz Kafka at the end of the year 1920 in Tatranské Matliare (The High Tatras). They were both patients treated for lung tuberculo...

Franz cells (2-chambered, air/fluid phase static diffusion devices, previously used for the study of drugs across viable human skin) are utilized for the first time to investigate the process of infection of human skin by Schistosoma mansoni cercariae. Skin obtained from cosmetic surgery sources was used in the Franz cells to describe the temporal dynamics of the early interaction of cercariae ...