Deutsche Version unter: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1055/s-0042-108897 1. We welcome the fact that the Board of the D.I.R rated 4 of the 5 criticisms as “not altogether wrong” and repeatedly indicated that our criticism was justified (“Kadi and Wiesing pointed out [...] rightly...”). That the Board has again stated that the approach of the D.I.R is “considered exemplary, also by international standar...

Neurological reports of "tactile blindsight" suggest that the human somatosensory system can extract behaviorally useful information about the location of a tactile stimulus in the absence of conscious awareness that the stimulus occurred (Paillard et al., 1983; Rossetti et al., 1995). However, in a series of psychophysical experiments with neurologically intact subjects, we found no evidence f...

Selective mobility into and out of urban neighbourhoods is one of the main driving forces of segregation. Earlier research has found group differences in who wants to leave or who leaves certain types of neighbourhoods. A factor that has received little attention so far is that some residents will have a desire to leave their neighbourhood, but are unable to do so. If there are differences betw...

Eg̃eciog̃lu and Remmel [2] gave an interpretation for the entries of the inverse Kostka matrix K in terms of special rim-hook tableaux. They were able to use this interpretation to give a combinatorial proof that KK = I but were unable to do the same for the equation KK = I. We define a sign-reversing involution on rooted special rim-hook tableaux which can be used to prove that the last column o...

I take the first part of the title of my essay from a character in Mary Wroth’s Urania , dubbed the Lady of the Oddest Passion, who makes a fleeting appearance in book 3. 1 This lady, described as “most loving, most discreet” (452), is loved by, and in return loves equally, two men. All three were content with this situation for a time, but ultimately the Lady is pressed to choose between the s...

The present investigation deals with the propagation of waves in a micropolar transversely isotropic layer. Secular equations for symmetric and skew-symmetric modes of wave propagation in completely separate terms are derived. The amplitudes of displacements and microrotation were also obtained. Finally, the numerical solution was carried out for aluminium epoxy material and the dispersion curv...