M/O)DERATOR TLOiIs N. KATZ (Chicago, Ill.): Before I call upon my colleagues I wish to make a few introductory remarks. We as physicians must view heart disease in all its ramifications. Heart disease is primarily a chronic process. The problem is more than the immediate alleviation of acute exa(erbations of the disease, involving a temporary sojourn in the acute hospital, or its equivalent at ...

Five experts respected for their work in the development of animal models of alcohol craving offer their perspectives in a roundtable discussion format. The panel members discuss the various definitions and theories of alcohol craving and the benefits and limitations of using animal models to study alcohol craving in humans. Animal models have helped further the understanding of craving by prov...

The financial and non-financial involvement of venture capitalists is supposed to be positively correlated with firm performance. This paper deals with the evaluation of the impact of venture capitalists on employment growth of new founded firms. Differences between high-tech and low-tech industries as well as the impact of other investors are analyzed. The estimation results show that survivin...

DISCUSSION ARTICLES Kawabata et al. Eosinophilia in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and architectural destruction are features of desquamative interstitial pneumonia. Histopathology 2008;52:194-202. Prasse et al. Phenotyping sarcoidosis from a pulmonary perspective. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008;177:330-6 Sumikawa et al. Computed Tomography Findings in Pathological Usual Interstitial Pneumonia. ...

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Gesondheidswerkers is bewus van die konsep en voordele van spanwerk maar in werklikheid word die beginsels daarvan selde toegepas. Deur spanwerk word die kennis en vaardighede van elke lid saamgevoeg om die mees effektiewe oplossing vir ’n pasiënt se probleem te vind. Dit is noodsaaklik dat elke lid aanvaar word as individu wat ’n unieke bydrae kan lewer. Die geneesheer is tradisioneel die leie...

We present a simple analytic scheme for calculating the binding energy of excitons in semiconductors that takes full account of the existing anisotropy in the effective mass, as a complement to the qualitative treatment in most textbooks. Results obtained for excitons in gallium nitride form the basis for a discussion of the accuracy of this approach. Zusammenfassung. Wir präsentieren ein einfa...

5 Department of Basic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, 6 Barcelona, Spain 7 Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland 8 Department of Neuropsychology, Otto-von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany 9 Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Campus de Bellvitge – IDIBELL, 10 University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 11 Institució Catalana d...

Eptifibatide is the active substance of the medicinal product Integrilin. Eptifibatide is an anti-platelet agent with high affinity and specificity for the Glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor that mediates platelet aggregation. Eptifibatide is an inhibitor of platelet aggregation and belongs to a new class of RGD mimeticsarginin (R), glycin (G), aspartic acid (D). Eptifibatide reversibly inhibi...

It is well known that model parameters are not invariant to shifts in policy regimes. Since Lucas' excellent paper on the subject, economists have paid lip service to the problems raised by regime shifts. Most policy analyses, however, ranging from columns in national magazines and newspapers to more formal work, continue to use models whose parameters are implicitly assumed to be immune to reg...