BACKGROUND No official German translation exists for the 50-item Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC), and no minimal important difference (MID) has been established yet. The aim of the study was to translate and validate a German version of the EPIC with cultural adaptation to the different German speaking countries and to establish the MID. METHODS We translated and culturally ad...

Reconfigurable computing offers the embedded systems designers the flexibility of application specific optimizations on a generic platform. In this paper, we are concerned with a fine-grain, tightly coupled, dynamically reconfigurable architecture we call Adaptive EPIC. A generic EPIC architecture is augmented with a dynamically reconfigurable structure. In this paper, we describe an experiment...

The epic decasyllable is a traditional South Slavic folk metrical form. The poems created in this rich oral tradition are of a highly formulaic nature, and possess a discernible metrical organization. My focus will be on the so-called Serbo-Croatian poems within this tradition (cf. Maretić 1907, 1935, Jakobson 1933, 1952), which have been documented in numerous volumes of verse. Among the most ...

An electron-proton/ion polarized beam collider (EPIC) with high luminosity and center of mass energy √ s = 25 GeV would be a valuable facility for fundamental studies of proton and nuclear structure and tests of quantum chromodynamics, I review a sample of prospective EPIC topics, particularly semi-exclusive reactions, studies of the proton fragmentation region, heavy quark electroproduction, a...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is largely organized around its explicit reference to Milton’s retelling of Genesis 2–3, Paradise Lost. Unfortunately, this Milton has discouraged scholars from going back the Old Testament itself. In fact, novel contains three crucial biblical allusions. Most obvious, course, are allusions creation (Genesis 1–3), which contain details not found in epic. The biblical...

according to the tradition and ferdowsi’s shāhnāma, the well-known iranian national epic, homay chehrzad is the first iranian sovereign queen of the keyanid origin. her life was an amalgamation of ancient iranian myth, epic and history. she was the daughter, wife and successor to the throne of bahman ardeshir, son of esfandiyār. the sovereignty of homay was not expected by the society. therefor...

We study the question when a ∗-autonomous (Mix-)category has a representation as a ∗-autonomous category of a compact one. We prove that necessary and sufficient condition is that weak distributivity maps are monic (or, equivalently epic). For a Mix-category, this condition is, in turn, equivalent to the requirement that Mix-maps be monic (or epic). We call categories satisfying this property t...

As part of the guaranteed time, guest observer and calibration programs, XMM-Newton extensively observed a group of six thermally emitting, isolated neutron stars which are neither connected with a supernova remnant nor show pulsed radio emission. The high statistical quality of the EPIC data allows a detailed and homogeneous analysis of their temporal and spectral properties. Four of the six s...