1CC12 Department of Medicine, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, 2Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum (DRFZ), and 3CC13 Department of Gastroenterology, Infectiology and Rheumatology, Charité–University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 4Research Center ImmunoScience (RCIS), Berlin, Germany; 5CC14 Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Charité–University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany; and 6Forme...

Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin, Germany Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, 15310 Athens, Greece Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and N...

In this thesis, three issues in wireless and mobile networks are considered. The first issue is the enabling of real-time traffic in wireless local area networks (WLANs). Real-time services such as streaming voice and video require a certain quality of service (QoS) such as low packet loss and low delay to perform well. Four different mechanisms for providing service differentiation in a wirele...

The Igala religion believes in the supreme God (Ọjọ) as well ancestral spirits (Ibegwu). This belief system gives rise to question of whether is monotheistic or polytheistic. Isaiah Negedu has recently argued that a peculiar form monotheism, namely inclusive monotheism. In contrast, this essay compares understanding with Christian notions angels and patron saints, argues not concerns how we def...

Beliefs about factors that affect school performance (means-ends or causality beliefs) and about self-efficacy and control (agency and control beliefs) were assessed in 313 East Berlin children (grades 2-6) before unification and 516 West Berlin children shortly after unification. Multiple-group analyses of mean and covariance structures yielded 2 major differences: (a) East Berlin children sho...

1 Center for Stroke Research Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2 Department of Endocrinology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany 3 Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technical University of Dresden, Germany 4 Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany *Correspondence: martin.ebinger@ch...

341. Heterogeneous regional distribution of nosocomial infections due to ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Germany: Data from the German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (KISS) Rasmus Leistner, MD; Christin Schröder; Christine Geffers, MD; AnnChristin Breier, MD; Petra Gastmeier, MD; Michael Behnke, PhD; Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, ...

With the collaboration of Arastéh K. (Berlin), Arendt G. (Düsseldorf), Bader A. (Bochum), Behrens G. (Hannover), Beichert M. (Mannheim), Berg T. (Potsdam), Bergmann F. (Berlin), Bieniek B. (Berlin), Blauhut B. (Linz), Bogner J. (München), Brockhaus W. (Nürnberg), Brockmeyer N.H. (Bochum), Brodt H.R. (Frankfurt/M), Büscher U. (Berlin), Buhk T. (Hamburg), Christensen S. (Münster), Doerr H.W. (Fra...