It is always a pleasure to read one of Lars Svensson’s papers on monetary policy. They are carefully reasoned, substantive, and address real world problems of monetary control. As the bibliography to his paper shows, he has done an impressive amount of theoretical and empirical work on the many facets of inflation control. The paper today summarizes a considerable part of his work. I recommend ...

BACKGROUND Apathy is usually defined as reduced interest and participation in various activities. It is a frequent consequence of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Although various scoring methods have been proposed, there is a lack of validated, standardised instruments for detecting apathy and assessing its severity. OBJECTIVE To develop an apathy rating scale using a structured stand...

Climate is one of the single most important factors affecting watershed ecosystems and water resources. The effect of climate variability and change has been studied extensively in some places; in many places, however, assessments are hampered by limited availability of long-term continuous climate data. Weather generators provide a means of synthesizing long-term climate data that can then be ...

We have undertaken a randomised clinical trial comparing two methods of reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament in patients with chronic instability. We used an ipsilateral bone-patellar-tendon-bone autograft in 27 patients and the Ligament Advancement Reinforcement System (LARS) artificial ligament in 26. Assessment before and at two, six, 12 and 24 months after surgery, included the ...

English) Abstract (German) Introduction Part I: The Evolutionary Genetic Approach to Personality The Evolutionary Genetics of Personality Lars Penke, Jaap J. A. Denissen and Geoffrey F. Miller 22 Open Peer Commentaries by Timothy C. Bates, Anne Campbell, Niels J. Dingemanse, Harald Euler, Aurelio José Figueredo & Paul Gladden, David C. Funder, Steven W. Gangestad, Kerry L. Jang, Wendy Johnson, ...

The recent rise of smart applications has drawn interest to logical reasoning over data streams. Different query languages and stream processing/reasoning engines were proposed. However, due to a lack of theoretical foundations, the expressivity and semantics of these diverse approaches were only informally discussed. Towards clear specifications and means for analytic study, a formal framework...

The rapidly growing market of industrial and automotive vision systems demands for image sensors with very high dynamic ranges of more than 100dB. State of the art linear imagers are not capable of delivering this signal range at standard video speeds while sensors with logarithmic signal compression suffer from high fixed pattern noise, low contrast and excessive temperature drift. The newly d...

Labdog is a novel web technology designed to promote learning in and around the teaching laboratory. During a laboratory session, Labdog offers functionality similar to a Classroom Response System (CRS), e.g. ‘clickers’ or ‘zappers’. Labdog focuses on a different environment: the teaching laboratory – and can therefore be referred to as a Laboratory Response System (LaRS). Results from piloting...

One of the unfortunate trends that may have had the greatest effect on this change of opinion is the increase in the frequency of suicide among young people. Even more so than in the case of other suicides, most of us feel it is meaningless and incomprehensible when a child or a young person commits suicide. Therefore reports about such cases have attracted much attention in the mass media, a f...

Review of Contemporary German Science Fiction edited by Lars Schmeink und Ingo Cornils.