This paper reveals that while Muslims have a surprisingly good reputation in Western Europe, the headscarf is opposed by a large majority. Several arguments are developed in this paper to investigate why people make a difference between Muslims as a group and their religious practices. While attitudes towards Muslims hardly vary across countries there is a lot of variation of resentment against...

LFA-1 activation plays a major role in reducing the velocity of rolling leukocytes and causing firm adhesion to the endothelium. The signaling cascades that cause LFA-1 activation during this process have been described through mostly correlative experiments, but the precise occurrence and location of LFA-1 activation in response to specific signals has not been directly shown. Tim Springer’s g...

Marc Hauser’s research sits at the interface between evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience and is aimed at understanding the processes and consequences of cognitive evolution. Observations and experiments focus on human and nonhuman primates, incorporating methods and theoretical insights from behavioral ecology, infant cognitive development, evolutionary theory, cognitive neuroscienc...

Introduction Molecular electronics is one of a number of competing approaches to the problem of employing nanotechnology to increase the performance of electronic devices. Molecules possess some potential advantages for nanoelectronics: chemistry offers a unique ability to tailor features at the nanoscale, molecules may be semiconducting, they can de designed to assemble on specific sites in a ...

The goal of this dissertation is to design and implement a metaobject protocol adapted to fault-tolerance in Corba applications. No currently available metaobject protocol is satisfactory in this context. We define a protocol that enables dynamic control of (a) the behaviour and internal state of Corba objects, and (b) client/server and object/metaobject links. The implementation we propose is ...

BACKGROUND The modulated arc (mARC) technique has recently been introduced by Siemens as an analogue to VMAT treatment. However, up to now only one certified treatment planning system supports mARC planning. We therefore present a conversion algorithm capable of converting IMRT plans created by any treatment planning system into mARC plans, with the hope of expanding the availability of mARC to...

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a serious threat to the pork industry, and its pathogenesis needs further investigations. To study the role of two structural proteins of PRRSV in virus-host cells interactions, two stable cell lines (MARC-2a and MARC-N) expressing GP2 and N proteins, respectively, were established. We induced apoptosis in these cells by treating th...

We present a Mach-Zehnder interferometer assisted ring resonator configuration (MARC) to realize transmission spectra with unique spectral signatures and significantly large effective free ranges. Transmission are generated by changing the angular separation between through port drop waveguides of (RR). These comprised several distinct resonance lineshapes including Lorentzian, inverse Lorentzi...

"Burst-mode" modulated arc therapy (hereafter referred to as "mARC") is a form of volumetric-modulated arc therapy characterized by variable gantry rotation speed, static MLCs while the radiation beam is on, and MLC repositioning while the beam is off. We present our clinical experience with the planning techniques and plan quality assurance measurements of mARC delivery. Clinical mARC plans fo...

frbrizing opacs is viewed from two different angles: the system approach and the user approach. the first deals with different requirements of a system to be frbrized automatically. the second regards the user as the integral element which any system attempts to serve. due to the very huge number of marc records stored in our opac databases, data mining marc records to find different frbr entit...