1 Dep. of Information Systems/Algoritmi, University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal, [email protected] WWW home page: http://www3.dsi.uminho.pt/pcortez 2 Dep. of Informatics, University of Minho, 4710-059 Braga, Portugal, {pns, mrocha}@di.uminho.pt 3 Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE, London, UK, [email protected]

Background and Purpose—The SAINT I trial demonstrated that the neuroprotective agent NXY-059 improves the distribution of acute stroke patient outcomes on the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) of global disability. Standard dichotomized number-needed-to-treat (NNT) analyses for the magnitude of treatment benefit range widely, from 22.7 to infinity, and each capture only a portion of the observed bene...

Recent ROSAT studies have identified a significant population of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) that are notably faint in soft X-rays relative to their optical fluxes. Are these AGN intrinsically X-ray weak or are they just highly absorbed? Brandt, Laor & Wills have systematically examined the optical and UV spectral properties of a well-defined sample of these soft X-ray weak (SXW) AGN drawn fro...

Bruno Eckhardt, Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki, Krzysztof Sacha, and Jakub Zakrzewski Fachbereich Physik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, D-35032 Marburg, Germany 2 Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art Academy of Fine Arts, Smoleńsk 9, Kraków, Poland Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics and Mark Kac Complex Systems Research Centre, Jagiellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 K...

NICOLAS MULLER, JAKUB HABERKO, CATHERINE MARICHY, AND FRANK SCHEFFOLD* Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland Université de Lyon, Laboratoire des Multimatériaux et Interfaces, Villeurbanne Cedex, 69622 Lyon, France *Correspond...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It has been proposed that the novel spin trap agent disodium-[(tert-butylimino)methyl]benzene-1,3-disulfonate N-oxide (NXY-059) may be useful in the treatment of ischemic stroke. However, there is little information concerning the neuroprotective properties of NXY-059 when administered after an embolic stroke. Moreover, there is no information available concerning the com...

P. Korecki, D. V. Novikov, M. Tolkiehn, and G. Materlik Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Reymota 4, 30-059 Krakow, Poland Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor HASYLAB am Deutschen Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22603 Hamburg, Germany Diamond Light Source Limited, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom ~Received 8 November 2003; publishe...

BACKGROUND The Orf virus (ORFV) is the causative agent of orf, a globally-occurring, acute, pustular, contagious disease affecting sheep, goats and humans with a worldwide distribution. Currently, the genomic analysis of four ORFV strains from the Fujian province in southern China and a NA1/11 strain isolated from the Jilin province in northeast China have been reported. However, little is know...

IKP, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany †IKP, Westfälische Wilhelms–Universität, D-48149 Münster, Germany Institute of Nuclear Physics, PL-31-342 Cracow, Poland ‡M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, PL-30-059 Cracow, Poland §Uppsala University, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden ¶ZEL, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany Institute of Physics, University...