BACKGROUND With the introduction of laparoscopic antireflux surgery (LARS) for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) along with the increasing efficacy of modern medical treatment, a direct comparison is warranted. The 3-year interim results of a randomised study comparing both the efficacy and safety of LARS and esomeprazole (ESO) are reported. METHODS LOTUS is an open, parallel-group mul...

Professors Candès and Tao are to be congratulated for their innovative and valuable contribution to high-dimensional sparse recovery and model selection. The analysis of vast data sets now commonly arising in scientific investigations poses many statistical challenges not present in smaller scale studies. Many of these data sets exhibit sparsity where most of the data corresponds to noise and o...

Ahlström, Håkan Alegre Castellanos, Alvaro Algin, Oktay Andersen, Poul Attiná, Dome Baba, Yasutaka Bagenholm, Anna Battal, Bilal Bertolotto, Michele Bolvig, Lars Christoforidis, Emmanuel Clemmesen, Otto Court-Payen, Michel Cwikiel, Wojciech de Foer, Bert Derchi, Lorenzo E Di Mario, Carlo Dobrocky, Tomas Dorenberg, Eric Ekberg, Olle El-Diasty, Tarek Eriksson, Mats-Ola Eryilmaz, Mehmet Eshed, Iri...

Despite the increasing popularity in the academic and practical fields of digital gaming, little has been explored and documented about gaming experience, especially firsthand account. This study uses Bruno Latour's concept of the Thing while investigating digital gaming experience from frequent gamers' standpoint using focus groups methodology. Additionally in-depth interviews were conducted w...

Zusammenfassung In diesem Beitrag stellen wir das LArS-Modul C („Critical Incidents“) vor. Wir geben zunächst einen Überblick über den allgemeinen Aufbau und gehen auf die einzelnen Modulteile ein. Anschließend werden theoretische Hintergründe der Gestaltung diskutiert praktische Möglichkeiten zum Einsatz Videos Lehr-/Lernmaterialien aufgezeigt. Die Auswahl Unterrichtssituationen Aufgaben erfol...