Page Preamble ..................................................................1642 Introduction.............................................................1643 Aortic wall disease...................................................1643 Inherited disease ..................................................1643 Aortic disease in infancy and childhood .............1645 Ageing of the aorta............

Blaise Pascal and Pierre Fermat are credited with founding mathematical probability because they solved the problem of points, the problem of equitably dividing the stakes when a fair game is halted before either player has enough points to win. This problem had been discussed for several centuries before 1654, but Pascal and Fermat were the first to give the solution we now consider correct. T...

See also Leitner JM, Jilma B, Spiel AO, Sterz F, Laggner AN, Janata KM. Massive pulmonary embolism leading to cardiac arrest is associated with consumptive coagulopathy presenting as disseminated intravascular coagulation. This issue, pp 1477–82; Thachil J. DIC score predicts mortality in massive clot coagulopathy as a result of extensive pulmonary embolism: a rebuttal. This issue, pp 1657–8; L...

•Utterances were annotated according to three levels: – Neutral (level 1) : unstress, normal or neutral speech, happy, relax; – Medium (level 2): stress, speech is nervous, there is tension in the voice, more speed, there are hesitations; – Higher (level 3): high stress, there are shouts, anger, despair. Speaker Higher Medium Neutral missionDirector 0 13 375 safetyDirector 24 188 629 teamRole 0...

could easily have been used by a leech. Vitellius is akin to the famous Bury St Edmunds herbal, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 130, a volume known to have been stored in a cupboard or chest ("de armario"). The care with which Vitellius was produced is seen in the scribe's anticipation of pictures. He wrote "a shorthand visual sign" for the artist in the spaces he left for them. The two sig...

In early modern England accumulating knowledge of normal and morbid anatomy through dissecting the human body not only led to a better understanding of nature, but also defined the identity of the people who engaged in this activity. This essay analyses the relationship between systemically dismembering the dead and how this pursuit shaped the attitudes and emotions of early modern medical men ...

Solid molecular nitrogen (N2) may exist in large abundances in various low-temperature interstellar and solar system environments. Intense radiation fields can cause molecular nitrogen ice to undergo chemical alterations by cleaving the nitrogen–nitrogen triple bond. We have simulated this chemical processing by carrying out radiolysis experiments using energetic electrons on molecular nitrogen...

Derriere ce titre epure se cache une lecture rigoureuse des enjeux mystiques et metaphysiques distiques quatrains qui composent Le Pelerin cherubinique que Johannes Scheffler publie premiere fois a Vienne en 1657 sous le nom d’Angelus Silesius. Jacques Brun nous donne ici interpretation du recueil travaillant rapport entre culture spirituelle tres dense ecriture poetique d’une brievete intense,...

ABSTRACT OAO 1657?415 is an atypical supergiant X-ray binary among wind- and disc-fed systems, showing alternate spin-up/spin-down intervals lasting of the order tens days. We study different torque states based on spin history monitored by Fermi/Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor, together with fluxes from Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) Monitor All-sky Image/Gas Slit Camera. Its frequency derivatives ...