Die Megastudien 2008

Impulse für die Wissenschaft 2008 - aus der Arbeit der Volkswagenstiftung

Tetanus as Cause of Mass Die-off of Captive Japanese Macaques, Japan, 2008

In 2008 in Japan, 15/60 captive Japanese macaques died. Clostridium tetani was isolated from 1 monkey, and 11 had tetanus-specific symptoms. We conclude the outbreak resulted from severe environmental C. tetani contamination. Similar outbreaks could be prevented by vaccinating all monkeys, disinfecting housing areas/play equipment, replacing highly C. tetani-contaminated soil, and conducting ep...

Technical Report NWU - EECS - 08 - 15 July 12 , 2008 Internet Politics : Resist , Die , or Exploit ?

In this paper, we disclose and explain Internet politics, an “invisible hand” that inherently affects Internet research. We show that it could cause significant underutilization of constructive research ideas and a vicious cycle of bias in mainstream research ideas. However, we also expose that it is possible to gradually alleviate effects of the Internet politics by well understanding it. To t...

How infants die in the neonatal intensive care unit: trends from 1999 through 2008.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether trends toward decreasing use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the time of death and increasing frequency of forgoing life-sustaining treatment had continued, as few studies quantifying mode of death for hospitalized infants have been conducted in the last 10 years. DESIGN Retrospective descriptive study. SETTING Regional referral neonatal intensive care uni...

Die Struktur des Benzoldimers – die Dynamik gewinnt**

Das Benzoldimer ist ein Prototypsystem f r die Untersuchung nichtkovalenter Wechselwirkungen zwischen aromatischen Systemen, die durch Dispersionskr fte bestimmt werden. Es weist zwei miteinander konkurrierende Gleichgewichtsstrukturen auf: eine gekippte, T-fçrmige (edge-toface) und eine, in der die beiden Benzolringe parallel angeordnet, aber zueinander verschoben sind (stacked). Sowohl der ve...