The present research examines the meaning of national identity in the United States and Germany and its implications for immigrant citizen relations. In Study 1, American and German participants responded to the question “What does it mean to be American [German]?” Results revealed that the American national identity is ideology-based as characterized by an endorsement of a core set of transcen...

Presenter: Lisa Brubaker MD | Baylor College of Medicine Background: Intraperitoneal drain placement is presumed to decrease morbidity and mortality in patients who develop a clinically relevant post-operative pancreatic fistula (CR-POPF) following pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). It unknown whether multiple drains mitigate CR-POPF better than single drain. We hypothesize that the complication bur...

“You’re going to make a difference. A lot of times it won’t be huge, visible even. But will matter just the same. Don’t do for praise or money, that’s what I want tell you. Do because needs done. your world better.” - James Gordon, in Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka’s Gotham Central Book One: In line duty. This annual Special Edition once again combines outstanding papers from two conferences: The 3...

1G Analog Cellular Recent years have seen tremendous growth in wireless subscribers. Moreover, new services like music downloads and Internet access on wireless cell phones have meant more and more data transmissions over wireless infrastructures. At the same time, however, the frequency spectrum allocated for wireless communications has been essentially constant. But with more users and more t...

An L-function, as the term is generally understood, is a Dirichlet series in one complex variable s with analyic continuation to all complex s, a functional equation and an Euler product. The coefficients are thus multiplicative. Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series are a new class of Dirichlet series that differ from L-functions in two ways. First, they are Dirichlet series in several complex ...

The classical Gindikin-Karpelevich formula appears in Langlands’ calculation of the constant terms of Eisenstein series on reductive groups and in Macdonald’s work on p-adic groups and affine Hecke algebras. The formula has been generalized in the work of Garland to the affine Kac-Moody case, and the affine case has been geometrically constructed in a recent paper of Braverman, Finkelberg, and ...

At the Penning trap facility SHIPTRAP mass measurements of transfermium elements as well as nuclides in the vicinity of the proton drip-line have been performed [1, 2]. Going towards even more exotic proton-rich elements, the SHIPTRAP experiment is hampered by the abundant unwanted reaction products. In order to quickly identify the ions produced, to select the nuclei of interest out of all fus...

1. Nissen, O. I., and Hoppe, R.: The facility of aqueous outflow calculated from the rate of fall in applanation pressure after intravenous acetazolamide in man, Acta Ophthalmol. 52: 390, 1974. 2. Nissen, O. I.: The immediate response in applanation pressure to intravenous acetazolamide in primary glaucomas and glaucoma suspects, Acta Ophthalmol. 53: 537, 1975. 3. Grant, W. M.: Tonographic meth...

Tavares, Wendy, Daniel J. Drucker, and Patricia L. Brubaker. Enzymaticand renal-dependent catabolism of the intestinotropic hormone glucagon-like peptide-2 in rats. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 278: E134–E139, 2000.— The intestinotropic hormone glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-2(1—33) is cleaved in vitro to GLP-2-(3—33) by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DP IV). To determine the importance of DP IV v...

There is a widely shared view that the appeal of multiculturalism as a public policy has suffered considerable political damage. In many European states the turn to “civic” measures and discourses has been deemed more suitable for the objectives of minority integration and the promotion of preferred modes of social and political unity. It is therefore said that the first decade of the new centu...