Inelastic collapse of stochastic trajectories of a randomly accelerated particle moving in half-space z>0 has been discovered by McKean [J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 2, 227 (1963)] and then independently rediscovered by Cornell et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1142 (1998)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1142]. The essence of this phenomenon is that the particle arrives at the wall at z=0 with zero vel...

Choke points and airway wall structure in expiratory central airway collapse are poorly defined. Computed tomography, white light bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, vibration response imaging, spirometry, impulse oscillometry, negative expiratory pressure, and intraluminal catheter airway pressure measurements were used in a patient with cough, dyspnea, and recurrent pulmonary infections....

As the Berlin Wall fell and the population of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) swelled by 25 percent with the addition of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), the health care system struggled to keep pace. This article examines drug outlays by the statutory sickness funds during the first 2 years of unified operations. It shows that providing equivalent ...

Anisotropic hierarchical honeycombs of uniform wall-thickness are constructed by repeatedly replacing each three-edge vertex of a base hexagonal network with a similar but smaller hexagon of the same orientation, and stretching the resulting structure in horizontal or vertical directions to break the isotropy. The uniform overall thickness is then adjusted to maintain the constant average densi...

The demonstration’s vehicle will be the multimedia performance «DE-FENCES», the outcome of the international «CUT Project», dealing with Europe’s new geography and questioning current «walls» and «separating lines» after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, developed through Research and Residencies in former and present “cut” territories [Berlin, Palestine, Nicosia, Kosovo]...

We discuss a novel cold dark matter candidate which is formed from the ordinary quarks during the QCD phase transition when the axion domain wall undergoes an unchecked collapse due to the tension in the wall. If a large number of quarks is trapped inside the bulk of a closed axion domain wall, the collapse stops due to the internal Fermi pressure. In this case the system in the bulk, may reach...