La musique, cette forme rythmique par excellence, peut-elle remettre le rythme en question ? Peut-elle même être pensée... sans le rythme ? Christophe Levaux s’intéresse à une page oubliée de l'histoire musicale, à savoir le drone. Ce style musical non-métrique a été initié par LaMonte Young, qui voulait produire un son de drone (bourdon) ininterrompu, une note sans fin, sans rythme ! Tout d'ab...

Purpose To study the capabilities of a novel scoring balloon concept in the recanalization of chronic iliofemoral venous occlusions and the impact on the periprocedural pain management concept. Materials and Methods A novel scoring balloon designed for problematic arterio-venous access stenosis was utilized for the recanalization of chronic iliofemoral occlusions. Severe pain during dilatation ...

Human walking displays an impressive precision and the ability to adapt to different terrains. It is suggested that both spinal as well as supra-spinal structures play an important role in this rhythmic task. The current thesis focuses on the role the motor cortex plays in this task. Although there are experimental findings and clinical observations suggesting that one of the supraspinal struct...

The text illustrates first experiences und results of ethical considerations within “KOMPASS a project for socialcooperative virtual assistants as daily companions for persons with disabilities”. This contains an interdisciplinary workshop using “MEESTAR” – a model for the ethical evaluation of social-technical arrangements. The results of this workshop were concentrated into packages of questi...

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The root of Stellera chamaejasme L. is a traditional Chinese herb termed Rui Xiang Lang Du and has been used to treat solid tumors, tuberculosis and psoriasis. Exactly how S. chamaejasme L. regulates cellular responses remains unclear. We examined four biflavonoids isolated from S. chamaejasme L., including isochamaejasmin, two of its stereo-isomers and a methyl derivative, in functional assays...

The subject of the 1996 DBTA-Workshop was migration and coexistence in the Database World. Different approaches were shown: Prof. Zehnder advocated federated databases to replace step by step the aging integrated systems and support new applications in a flexible way. Dirk Jonscher pointed out the problem of bringing together data from different applications: His solution is an integration with...