This review article is a tribute to the genius of Professor Erich Muhe, a man ahead of his times. We trace the development of laparoscopic cholecystectomy and detail the tribulations faced by Muhe. On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy, we take another look at some of the controversies surrounding this gold standard in the management of gallbladd...

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Lomet 1 TC on Data Engineering: Election of Chair for 2007-2008 . . . . . . . . Betty Salzberg, David Lomet, Erich Neuhold 2 Position Statement and Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The Complexity of Computational Problems in Exact Linear Algebra Name: Erich L. Kaltofen, Arne Storjohann Affil./Addr. 1: North Carolina State University Department of Mathematics Raleigh, NC 27695-8205, USA Phone: (919) 515-8785 E-mail: [email protected] Affil./Addr. 2: University of Waterloo David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 Phone: (519) 888-4...

depression Milan Scheidegger, Martin Walter, Mick Lehmann, Coraline Metzger, Simone Grimm, Heinz Boeker, Peter Boesiger, Erich Seifritz, and Anke Henning Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Clinic of Affective Disorders and General Psychiatry, University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Gueri...

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Institute of Physics SAS, Dubravska cesta 9, 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia Polymer Institute Slovak SAS, Dubravska cesta 9, 84236 Bratislava, Slovakia International Laser Center, Ilkovicova 3, 81219 Bratislava, Slovakia HASYLAB /DESY, Notkestr. 86, 22603 Hamburg, Germany Erich Schmid Institute for Materials Science, Jahnstr. 12, A-8700 Leoben, Austria Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH, Rosegg...

Antje Feller1, Ling Yuan2, and Erich Grotewold3 1Center for Plant Molecular Biology – ZMBP, Developmental Genetics, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany; 2Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, and South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China 510650; 3Center for Applied Plant Sciences and Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio Stat...

José G. Sampayo†, Alexandr Malijevský†,‡, Erich A. Müller†, Enrique de Miguel§, and George Jackson†∗ †Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK §Departamento de F́ısica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain ‡E. Hála Laboratory of Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals o...