soon after cardiac transplantation, but the recipient patients seldom show a postoperative precordial murmur attributable to valve dysfunction. This is not surprising, because mild forms of valvular regurgitation detected by Doppler are often clinically inaudiblee5 Overt signs of tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular failure were observed in 2 patients with residual postoperative pulmon...

The oxygen gas electrode has been studied for a number of mixed conducting oxide surface layers on top of GdpZr20 P (TGZO) solid electrolytes. In part II of this paper we present the results of frequency dispers on measurements for the electrode reaction, supplying additional information to the results of current-overvoltage experiments presented in part I. For both kinds of experiments the sam...

July 1, 2011. For the few sorry spirits who, misguided by the general state of the world, thought that mathematical optimization was in theoretical decline or too remote from applications in the real world, the SIOPT Conference on Optimization in Darmstadt in May was a real and vivid counterexample. Indeed this very well attended meeting (600+ participants) was a resounding success in terms of ...

Neurofilaments (NFs) are a major constituent of nerve cell axons that assemble from three subunit proteins of low (NF-L), medium (NF-M), and high (NF-H) molecular weight into a 10 nm diameter rod with radiating sidearms to form a bottle-brush-like structure. Here, we reassemble NFs in vitro from varying weight ratios of the subunit proteins, purified from bovine spinal cord, to form homopolymer...

Aims. We investigate the distribution and properties of Faraday rotating and synchrotron emitting regions in the Galactic ISM in the direction of the Galactic anti-centre. Methods. We apply Faraday tomography to a radio polarization dataset that we obtained with the WSRT. We developed a new method to calculate a linear fit to periodic data, which we use to determine rotation measures from our p...