The article analyzes newly identified documents detailing the detention of prisoners in Finnish facilities created on territory Olonets region Karelia during Great Patriotic War. They provide an opportunity studying regional aspects occupation 1941-44, comparing data with other materials region. are letters concentration camp prisoners, written to archive late 20th century order obtain certific...

T he concept of immunologic memory has been documented since ancient times. Indeed, in 450 BC, the Greek historian Thuydices observed that those who had survived a disease were most apt to visit the newly stricken, because “[they] knew it was from experience, and had now no fear for themselves, for the same man was never attacked twice.” Despite this longstanding appreciation, the mechanisms re...

In 1996, a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)-a disease that causes lack of coordination, muscle twitching or jerking, dementia, and, eventually, death-suddenly appeared in Great Britain. It is believed that the victims contracted the disease from eating the beef of cattle stricken with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. As of December 1997, at least 25 peo...

The development of a clinically applicable, automatic, implantable defibrillator has been described previously.1 This electronic device is designed to monitor cardiac electrical activity, to recognize ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachyarrhythmias with a sinusoidal wave form, and then to deliver corrective defibrillatory discharges. It is intended to protect patients at particularly ...

In order to protect the ecological environment and solve poverty problem in western region, China has established an migration (EM) policy. This policy aims relocate populations from poverty-stricken areas with fragile environments, which inevitably leads changes land cover environment. The objective of this study was identify effects EM a typical region (Wuwei), including risk (ER). A change m...

Infectious Salmon Anemia is a devastating disease critically affecting world-wide salmon production. Chile has been particularly stricken by this disease which in all cases has been directly related with its causative agent, a novel orthomyxovirus which presents specific and distinctive infective features. Among these, two molecular markers have been directly associated with pathogenicity in tw...

rate, claiming amongst its victims princes, priests, and professional men of mark. H. R. H. Duke op Clarence succumbed after a week's illness to an attack of influenza, followed by pneumonia and collapse ; H. H. the Kliedive OF Egypt also died after a week's illness, which commenced with influenza and ended in pneumonia and ursemic coma. But the greatest mortality occurred amongst those well-st...

implement the model. AMEL is applied to a real case study, a district of the city of Beirut, Lebanon, which potentially could be stricken by a M7 earthquake. The objective of the model is to reproduce real life mobility behaviours that have been gathered through a survey in Beirut and to test different future scenarios, which may help the local authorities to target information campaigns.