Alla fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, la Germania era un Paese sconfitto e devastato, politicamente diviso in due regioni distinte sotto il controllo delle potenze vincitrici. Nella coscienza Germania, 1945 divenne una sorta di anno zero per nuova rinascita politica ed economica che, nell'ultimo decennio del XX secolo, avrebbe portato alla riunificazione, l'egida cancelliere Helmut Kohl. Era...

In the vehicle routing problem with time windows a number of identical vehicles must be routed to and from a depot to cover a given set of customers, each of whom has a speciied time interval indicating when they are available for service. Each customer also has a known demand, and a vehicle may only serve the customers on a route if the total demand does not exceed the capacity of the vehicle....

In many non-human species odours play an important role in regulating social behaviour. They can signal the social status of an individual, affect reproductive development, instigate mating behaviour, and be used to identify kin in a variety of species (Preti et al, 1997). One example of this is the release of androstenone in the saliva of boars to instigate sexual presenting behaviour in sows ...

Editorial. The Genesis of Pulmonary Edema Maurice B. Visscher 291 Measurement of Pressures in Man by Cardiac Catheters Earl H. Wood, Isidoor R. Leusen, Homer R. Warner, and J. Leo Wright 294 Characteristics of Shock Following Acute Reduction of Cardiac Output in Dogs Frederick H. Meyers, Joseph C. Schoolar, and Richard R. Overman 304 A Relationship of Tissue Lipids to Sex and Body Weight in the...

Lead pollution from cosmetics remains a significant public health problem not only to men at work but to women using lead containing cosmetics. The aim of this study is to find out the effect of prenatal exposure to low lead from cosmetics on gestational age, premature rupture of the membrane and birth weight. The study was carried out in the mountainous Aseer region, Southwest of Saudi Arabia ...

1 Background. Lead poisoning is a great public health concern in the Nigerian state of Zamfara due to widespread gold ore mining by artisan miners using rudimentary and unsafe processing techniques. Children aged ≤6 years are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning, which accounts for 0.6% of the global burden of disease. We undertook this study to find out the prevalence and determinants of ch...

Krüger, Martina, Thomas Kohl, and Wolfgang A. Linke. Developmental changes in passive stiffness and myofilament Ca sensitivity due to titin and troponin-I isoform switching are not critically triggered by birth. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 291: H496–H506, 2006. First published May 5, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00114.2006.—The giant protein titin, a major contributor to myocardial mechanics,...