Als anfangs der 80er Jahre die Diskussion über einen urheberrechtlichen Schutz für Computerprogramme von den USA auf die europäischen Länder überschwappte, waren in der Schweiz Revisionsvorhaben im Wettbewerbsrecht und im Urheberrecht im Gange. Im Jahre 1983 wurden mehrere Entscheidungen aus Deutschland bekannt, in welchen ein urheberrechtlicher Schutz grundsätzlich bejaht wurde. Im selben Jahr...

X-ray microanalysis of frozen-hydrated tissue sections permits direct quantitative analysis of diffusible elements in defined cellular compartments. Because the sections are hydrated, elemental concentrations can be defined as wet-weight mass fractions. Use of these techniques should also permit determination of water fraction in cellular compartments. Reliable preparative techniques provide fl...

Transformers have become one of the dominant architectures in deep learning, particularly as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) computer vision. However, Transformer training and inference previous works can be prohibitively expensive due quadratic complexity self-attention over long sequence representations, especially for high-resolution dense prediction tasks. To ...

In vitro and in vivo studies were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a hydrated sodium calcium aluminosilicate (Improved Milbond-TX, IMTX) to alleviate the toxic effects of aflatoxin (AF) B1 in chicks. In vitro results indicated that IMTX was able to bind 100% of AFB1 at pH 3 to 9. In the in vivo study, five pen replicates of six chicks were assigned to each of four dietary treatments, which...

Dedication To Mr. Albin and Mr. Miller for recognizing that a student is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

We present cryo x-ray diffraction microscopy of high-pressure-cryofixed bacteria and report high-convergence imaging with multiple image reconstructions. Hydrated D. radiodurans cells were cryofixed at 200 MPa pressure into ∼10-μm-thick water layers and their unstained, hydrated cellular environments were imaged by phasing diffraction patterns, reaching sub-30-nm resolutions with hard x-rays. C...

Our computational study presents embedded cluster models of the hydrated electron focusing on its reactivity with the hydrated proton and the nitrous oxide molecule leading to formation of a hydrogen atom in the former case and a nitrogen molecule plus hydroxyl radical and hydroxide anion in the latter case. We show using ab initio calculations combined with the nudged elastic band method for d...

In this study, nanoindentation was conducted to extract the load-displacement behaviour and the nanomechanical properties of asphalt concrete across the mastic, matrix, and aggregate phases. Further, the performance of hydrated lime as an additive was assessed across the three phases. The hydrated lime containing samples have greater resistance to deformation in the mastic and matrix phases, in...