The author discusses the fate of the Foreign Intelligence Department of the GDR, which he headed for over thirty years, and of its colleagues and agents since the reunification of Germany ten years ago. There was no transformation of this service after the implosion of socialism; instead, it was liquidated, and criminal prosecutions followed which continue to this day. The author describes how ...

In this day and age, many developers work on large, untyped code repositories. Even if they are the creators of the code, they notice that they have to figure out the equivalent of method signatures every time they work on old code. This step is time consuming and error prone. Ten years ago, the two lead authors outlined a linguistic solution to this problem. Specifically they proposed the crea...

.......This issue marks our tenth anniversary edition of Top Picks articles from the major microarchitecture-related conferences, a tradition started in 2003 by Pradip Bose at the start of his tenure as Editor in Chief, and an issue that I think has only grown in importance in the intervening years. Over the years, Top Picks published many great articles. This year’s edition contains 11 more, a...

In their 2004 Trends in Cognitive Sciences review of inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex (rIFC), Aron et al. (henceforth AR&P) boldly claimed that “inhibition is localized to right IFG alone” (Aron et al., 2004). Ten years later, the authors have updated their theory to include one or more fronto–basal–ganglia networks along with rIFC, and to characterize the function of rIFC as a ...

Background: Interleukin 17 (IL-17) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine mainly secreted by activated TH-17 cells and involved in inflammatory immune responses. Interleukin 23 (IL-23) sustains the development of inflammation and is considered a check point. Aim: the aim of the present study was to investigate the association between serum IL-17A, IL-17F and serum IL23receptor variants in Saudi women w...

OBJECTIVE To clarify the cause, clinical course, and management of children with angioedema. DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTING Urban tertiary care hospital for children. PATIENTS Consecutive sample of all children hospitalized from January 1, 1987, to December 31, 1997, with the diagnosis of angioedema. Complete records permitting analysis were available for 10 patients. MAIN OUTCOME...

Over the past ten years, Tcl has been a key development tool for a range of collaborative systems, ranging from academic research prototypes to large-scale use in commercial web conferencing products. This paper examines how this use of Tcl evolved, highlighting some lessons for developers of growing systems, and focusing on how well Tcl can support traditional software engineering practice. Tc...

The notion of computability closure has been introduced for proving the termination of higher-order rewriting with first-order matching by Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and Mitsuhiro Okada in a 1997 draft which later served as a basis for the author's PhD. In this paper, we show how this notion can also be used for dealing with beta-normalized rewriting with matching modulo beta-eta (on patterns \`a la...

Landscape genetics is now ten years old. It has stimulated research into the effect of landscapes on evolutionary processes. This review describes the main topics that have contributed most significantly to the progress of landscape genetics, such as conceptual and methodological developments in spatial and temporal patterns of gene flow, seascape genetics, and landscape genomics. We then sugge...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the demographics and characteristics of children with Meckel's diverticulum (MD). MATERIAL AND METHODS In this retrospective study, we analyzed the medical records of all children who were treated for MD in the department of pediatric surgery of Tepecik Training and Research Hospital over a period of 10 years (1995-2004). Age, gender, clinical manifestations, diagnostic ...