The Unusually Shaped Bifrontal Hematoma To the Editor: We present a rare case of bifrontal hematoma resulting in death caused by a spontaneously ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery (ACoA). The hematoma was in the shape of a thick crescent, and the aneurysm was revealed on computerized tomography (CT) and CT angiography. A 60-year-old man suffering from hypertension and diabet...

In this paper, we report the significant results of a fully-implemented voice operated dialogue system, and particularly its main component: the Dialogue Manager (DM). Just like for other interfaces, spoken interfaces require a well-conducted design, implying a good analysis of the users’ needs throughout the dialogue. The VODIS project1 has led to the design and development of a spoken interfa...

The Unusually Shaped Bifrontal Hematoma To the Editor: We present a rare case of bifrontal hematoma resulting in death caused by a spontaneously ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery (ACoA). The hematoma was in the shape of a thick crescent, and the aneurysm was revealed on computerized tomography (CT) and CT angiography. A 60-year-old man suffering from hypertension and diabet...

See related article, pages ●●●–●●●. Now Thomas one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” John 20:24–29. Several arguments have been proposed to reject a substantia...

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a surgically curable form of severe pulmonary hypertension. However, in 10% of the patients, the procedure may not be successful, because of persistent pulmonary hypertension after removal of proximally located thromboembolic material. This complication is of particularly poor prognosis. In the present issue of the European Heart Journal,...

F l uorescence I i ne narrowing measurements of the5~O-7~0 transit ion in severa I structural 1 y di ss imi l ar Eu-doped g1 asses are presented. The homogeneous I inewidth exhibits a T~ dependence from 30 to 300 K. We show that this behavior can be accounted for by Raman processes with the anomalous vibrational modes of the fractal structure of the glass. I INTRODUCTION By the use of high reso...

A dilute system of CdS,Sel-, nanocrystals with low anisotropy and low size dispersion has been studied by SAXS. The presence of angularities at the surface of the nanoparticles is evidenced from the limit at zero of the chord distribution function. Moreover in a model of spherical particles the size given by the average chord does not agree with that given by the integral parameters. A cubic pa...

O b j e c t i v e s : To examine whether augmented nutrition therapy (Volkert et al. 2006, Williams 2006) improves the general rehabilitation outcome of patients with neurogenic dysphagia compared to neurologic patients without dysphagia. S u b j e c t s / m e t h o d s : 127 stroke patients undergoing postacute multidisciplinary neurorehabilitation approach were routinely screened for neurogen...

Purpose: Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) are being studied in clinical trials with the aim to induce cellular differentiation, growth arrest, and apoptosis of tumor cells. Recent reports suggest that the multidrug resistance-1 (MDR1) gene is regulated by epigenetic mechanisms. To investigate whether additional drug transporters are regulated by HDACi and how this affects cytotoxicity, ac...

Kronecker’s views on the foundations of mathematics are often reduced to jokes and regarded as an outdated set of ill-assorted ideas. A closer look however shows that they constitute an original and coherent doctrine justified by epistemological convictions. This doctrine appears in the article On the concept of number, published in the Journal of Crelle (1887) and, especially, in the last cour...