On July 25, 2013 Prof. Dr. med. Urs Heim passed away. With him one of the grand personalities of European trauma and orthopedic surgery left us. His work and his aura went far beyond the borders of his native country Switzerland. Urs Heim (Figure 1) was born on April 4, 1924 in Zurich. After attending school in Switzerland and France he started his studies in the field of human medicine in the ...

I am pleased to say that we have had a very active and productive year in terms of both research and education here at Duke Physics. This is my first year as Chair, as many of you know, and it was a year of challenges and learning for me personally. Certainly the most interesting things I learned came from finding out what my colleagues in other subfields are doing; this broad view – from bioph...

• Prof. James D. Callen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA • Dr. Geoffrey Cordey, JET, Abingdon, UK • Dr. Otto Gruber, ASDEX U, Max Planck Institut, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany • Prof. Wendell Horton, IFS, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA • Dr. Jean Jacquinot, Director of JET, Abingdon, UK (now Director of DRFC, C.E.A., Cadarache, France) • Prof. Guy Laval, Chairman, Ecole Poly...

Dr. P. K. Mohseni, Dr. A. Behnam, Dr. J. D. Wood, X. Zhao, N. C. Wang, Prof. J. W. Lyding, Prof. E. Pop, Prof. X. Li Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana , Illinois 61801 , USA E-mail: [email protected] K. J. Yu, Prof. A. Rockett, Prof. J. A. Rogers Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-...

Acknowledgements I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisors Prof. John Hughes and Prof. David Bell for their guidance. The thesis has benefited from a number of research projects and the input provided by a range of individuals. Initial work was conducted at the University of Abertay, Scotland under the heartening guidance of Dr. Colin Miller and Dr. Louis Nathanson. During my stay ...

of “Efficient Cryptography for the Next Generation Secure Cloud” by Alptekin Küpçü, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2010. Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, and client-server type storage and computation outsourcing constitute some of the major applications that the next generation cloud schemes will address. Since these applications are just emerging, it is the perfect time to design them with security ...

Vida Demarin, MD, PhD, Prof., University Department of Neurology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, Referral Center for Neurovascular Disorders of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Republic Croatia, Zagreb Arijana Lovrenčić-Huzjan, MD, PhD, Prof., University Department of Neurology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, Referral Center for Neurovascular Disorders of the M...

1 1 Is the ratio of flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and shear rate a statistically-sound approach to 2 normalization in cross-sectional studies on endothelial function? 3 4 Greg Atkinson, Alan M. Batterham, Mark A. Black, Nigel T. Cable, Nicola D. Hopkins, Ellen A. 5 Dawson, Dick.H.J. Thijssen, Helen Jones, Toni M. Tinken, Daniel J. Green 6 7 Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liv...

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