Summers and colleagues (January 2002)1 showed a beneficial method for detecting central airways involvement in patients with Wegener granulomatosis (WG). Indeed, CT virtual bronchoscopy (VB) has an advantage in visualizing stenosis of the airways over either CT scanning alone or bronchoscopy alone. The investigators applied the method to 11 patients with WG, however, they did not describe any d...

Professor Dr.-Ing. Michael Wegener is a partner of Spiekermann & Wegener, Dortmund, specializing in urban and regional research, and former Executive Director of the Institute of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund. Abstract: This paper gives an overview of the ILUMASS project (2002–2006) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Science and Education. The objective of ILUMASS was to implem...

In this paper we consider the problem of characterizing optimal variable orderings for shared OBDDs of two Boolean functions fi = gi ⊗i hi, i = 1, 2, where ⊗i is an operator from the Base B∗ 2 and gi (resp. hi) depends only on x-variables (resp. y-variables). Tree-like circuits provide an example for such functions. In the special case f1 = f2, Sauerhoff, Wegener and Werchner [6] proved that th...

Statistical analysis of the precision of the Match method R. Lehmann, P. von der Gathen, M. Rex, and M. Streibel Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Research Unit Potsdam, Telegrafenberg A43, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany Received: 2 February 2005 – Accepted: 15 April 2005 – Published: 24 May 2005 Correspondence to: R. Lehmann ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work...

In adults, the term specific pulmonary renal syndrome describes disorders with pulmonary and glomerular manifestations and includes Wegener's granulomatosis, Goodpasture disease, and systemic lupus erythematosus. Nonspecific pulmonary renal syndrome refers to either pulmonary disease complicating glomerular disease, or glomerular diseases following pulmonary disease. Since little is known regar...