Currently the BuTreeBank comprises 214 000 tokens, a little more than 15 000 sentences. Each token is annotated with morphosyntactic information. Additionally the Named Entities are annotated with ontological classes as person, organization, location, and other. Based on HPSG theory the annotation scheme defines a number of phrase types which reflect both the constituent structure and the head-...

Following peripheral nerve injury microglia accumulate within the spinal cord and adopt a proinflammatory phenotype a process which contributes to the development of neuropathic pain. We have recently shown that neuregulin-1, a growth factor released following nerve injury, activates erbB 2, 3, and 4 receptors on microglia and stimulates proliferation, survival and chemotaxis of these cells. He...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has been described in humans and in experimental animals. The most severe lesions are located in dependent lung segments along a sterno-vertebral axis, however the cephalocaudal distribution of lung infection remains unknown. We used an experimental model to evaluate the distribution of lung infection, considering its anteroposterior and cephalocaudal gradi...

Through European countries the dependency ratio of elders and people with disability will rise in the next years. To avoid a degradation of the life quality of dependant persons, they may be maintained in their home. To ensure people safety and avoid isolation problems, some mechanisms are needed. We propose a new method, the X-development method, to guide generic product design from end-to-end...