1050 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 46, NUMBER 9 T his year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the realization of the dream of one Swedish mathematician. In 1916, on his seventieth birthday, Gösta Mittag-Leffler promised his and his wife’s considerable fortune to the goal of founding a mathematics institute. More than forty years had to pass after his death before the institute was launched in earne...

background & aim: vast variety of plants in various regions of the country and lack of enough information on their chemical combinations, sometimes lead to triggering poisoning and unsatisfied complications. regarding to fabulous herbal characteristics of hypricum, many research about poisoning and side effects of high concentrations of h. scabrum have not taken place until now. therefore r...

This paper describes the research focus and ideas incorporated in the UT Austin Villa Standard Platform league team entering the RoboCup competition in 2015. UT Austin Villa is a team representing the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin.

Deuterium (D), the second most abundant isotope of hydrogen is present in natural waters at an approximate concentration 145–155 ppm (ca. 1.5E-4 atom/atom). D known to influence various biological processes due its physical and chemical properties, which significantly differ from those hydrogen. For example, increasing D-concentration >1000-fold above abundance has been shown increase freque...

: We read with interest the article by Villa and coworkers 1 advocating the use of cystatin C as a measure of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in critically ill patients. However, we should like to draw attention to several flaws in this study. First, Villa and coworkers compared cystatin C with creatinine as a measure of GFR, using body surface corrected creatinine clearance as, what they call...

3 Preface Autonomous driving has become a hot topic in the last few years – not only in Germany, but around the globe. In 2012, the world's largest conference on transport research and development, the Transport Research Board Annual Meeting, which takes place every January in Washington, put the topic under the spotlight for the first time with its own seminar entitled " Ready for Automated Dr...