BACKGROUND Whether obesity is associated with recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) in elderly patients is unknown. OBJECTIVES To examine the association between two obesity measures, the body mass index (BMI) and the waist circumference (WC), and recurrent VTE in elderly patients. PATIENTS/METHODS We studied 986 patients aged ≥65 years with an acute VTE from a prospective multicenter coho...

First-literal hyper-resolution (FLH) is a reenement of ordinary hyper-resolution in that positive clauses are only resolved upon their rst literals. In this respect, positive literals are ordered in every clause, but negative literals are not. Due to the ordering of literals in this resolution method, standard techniques for demonstrating ground completeness have proven ineeective. In this pape...

Empirical studies of static and dynamic diagrams have traditionally collected outcome data indicating the effectiveness of these depictions with respect to comprehension and learning. Because outcome measures alone provide limited insights as to why diagrams are or are not effective, there has been growing interest in studying how people process these depictions. In some cases, the aim of this ...

In 2002, we celebrated in the Netherlands the 100th anniversary of Einthoven’s first publication on the electrocardiogram (ECG).1,2 During the past century, the ECG has become indispensable for rapid diagnosis and management of patients with a wide variety of cardiac diseases. As pointed out by Fisch,3 the ECG is an easily available, patient-friendly, noninvasive, inexpensive, and reproducible ...

Monday December 7 08:00-09:00 Registration (3rd Floor Grand Ballroom, GRAND GONGDA JIANGUO HOTEL of Beijing University of Technology) 09:00-09:15 Open remarks 09:15-10:05 Keynote 1 Robert Deng (Singapore Management University) 10:05-10:55 Keynote 2 Wenchang Shi (Renmin University) 10:55-11:15 Tea & Coffee Break 11:15-12:05 Keynote 3 Rob Spiger (Microsoft) 12:05-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:00 Session 1...

Address for correspondence: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wuttke, Department of Endocrinology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Georg-AugustUniversity, Robert-Koch-Strasse 40, D-37099 Goettingen/ Germany, Tel.: +49-551-396714, Fax: +49-551-396518, E-mail: [email protected] Received 10-11-09, Revised 12-12-09, Accepted 2 -12-09

VIII International Symposium on Schizophrenia Bern (ISSB 2010) April 15 16, 2010 „The Importance of Cognitive Processes for the Integrative Treatment of Persons with Schizophrenia“ Thursday, 4/15/2010 08:45-12:30 Session 1: Foundations (Chairs: Wolfgang Tschacher, Bern, Switzerland and Hans D. Brenner, Valparaiso, Chile) 08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks (Wolfgang Tschacher, Bern, Switzerland) 09:00-...

After the outbreak of the swine-origin influenza A H1N1 virus in April 2009, World Health Organization declared this novel H1N1 virus as the first pandemic influenza virus (2009 pH1N1) of the 21st century. To elucidate the characteristics of 2009 pH1N1, the growth properties of A/Korea/01/09 (K/09) was analyzed in cells. Interestingly, the maximal titer of K/09 was higher than that of a seasona...

Native endophytic actinomycetes isolated from pearl millet roots were examined for their efficacy to protect pearl millet against downy mildew. Nineteen of 39 isolates were found to be proteolytic, of which 7 strains could directly suppress the sporangium formation of Sclerospora graminicola, the pearl millet downy mildew pathogen. Thus, mycelial suspensions containing either spores or cell-fre...