Elderly persons committing sexual offenses represent a growing group of individuals within the federal and state court systems, which creates a unique set of problems. Their advanced age sets them apart from other offenders in terms of their physical and mental needs during incarceration, as well as through society and the courts’ perception of what constitutes a fair sentence for these individ...

• Catalyst recovery can be performed in an energy-efficient way by reducing the volume of distillation streams. • Temperature-sensititve catalysts can be recovered at relatively mild temperatures from high boiling compounds. • By enabling continuous operation, reactions can be run under steady-state conditions, e.g., at limited conversions. • Catalysts based on expensive metals or ligands can b...

Cavernoma is the most common vascular malformation of the brain with an incidence of 0.4-0.5%, prevalence of 0.6 per 100,000 inhabitants, predominance in males between 20-40 years old, and predominance of 25% in children [1-4]. Brainstem cavernomas are rare (18%) and present a bleeding rate higher than supratentorial cavernomas; they are more common in the pons (61%), with an estimated bleeding...

SIR—Davis (Sept 28, p 868) convincingly challenges the assumption that children under age 5 years can be singled out as the most vulnerable group during acute emergencies and that, as a result, emergency public health interventions can be reduced to a standard package of child survival measures. We have witnessed in refugee camps how such focused strategies channelled a disproportionate share o...