V. Brožek, T. F. Kubatík, Institute of Plasma Physics CAS v.v.i. Prague, Czech Republic M. Vokáč, J. Kolísko, P. Pokorný, Czech Technical University Klokner Institute, Prague. Tungsten fibers have high tensile strength but a poor oxidation resistance at elevated temperatures. Using this first characteristic and to prevent oxidation of tungsten coated composite materials in which the primary req...

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We present a molecular theory to study the adsorption of different species within pH-sensitive hydrogel nanofilms. The theoretical framework allows for a molecular-level description of all the components of the system, and it explicitly accounts for the acid-base equilibrium. We concentrate on the adsorption of hexahistidine, one of the most widely used tags in bio-related systems, particularly...

For the second time in the last three years the Skin Forum held its Annual Meeting in conjunction with the APV. This time the meeting took place in Prague at the IMG Conference Centre with the APV Headquarters in the form of Dr. Bornhöft and Ms. Schmidt leading the meeting organizational efforts. About 200 skin scientists attended the meeting and gave it, with their discussions in the lectures ...

Jan Evangelista Purkyne (1787-1869) died 100 years ago. He was mourned by the entire Czech nation in whose cultural renaissance he had played a prominent part, and by many leading European physiologists and histologists who had sat at his feet and had been inspired by him. The unfamiliar but correct spelling "Purkyne" pronounced "Poorkeynie" must be explained. According to John, Purkyn6's nain ...

Famous mathematician and university teacher prof. RNDr. Josef Korous, DrSc. (7. 2. 1906 – 23. 8. 1981) is well-known in mathematical community mainly by his scientific work in the theory of orthogonal polynomials. He contributed to Czech and Slovak mathematics a lot of also as professor in higher education at universities and colleges, as supervisor of research work of his followers – mathemati...

*Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Department of Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Gemini Observatory, 670 North A'ohoku Place, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA Institute of Physics, Świet...

DR. NULAND: "Welcome to the 212th meeting of the Beaumont Medical Club and the First Annual John F. Fulton Lecture. "We have today received two communications which I should like to share with you. The first is a letter from the Queen Mother, which conveys her felicitous greetings (Fig. 1), and the second is a letter from the president of the Royal College of Physicians of England, Sir Douglas ...