(Christian Althaus): The transmission of an infectious disease can be considered as an ecological system where different sub-populations of individuals interact with each other. There are so-called susceptible individuals who can get infected, infected individuals who are in a latent phase and do not transmit the disease yet, symptomatically infected individuals who do transmit, and those indiv...

The workshop is co-located with the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference 2007 July 23-27, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands Hotel Krasnapolsky & University of Amsterdam LSDS-IR 2007 Poster by Christian Zimmer Christian Zimmer1, Christos Tryfonopoulos1, Klaus Berberich1, Gerhard Weikum1, and Manolis Koubarakis2 1 Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany | 2 National and Ka...

1 Section of Sexual Medicine, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany, 2 Department of Neurology, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany, 3 NeuroImage Nord, Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Germany, 4 Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 5 Department of Neurology, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 6 Section of Neuroradiology, Departme...

Robert Mettin Christian-Doppler-Laboratory for Cavitation and Micro-Erosion Drittes Physikalisches Institut Universität Göttingen Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1 37077 Göttingen, Germany Andrea Thiemann Christian-Doppler-Laboratory for Cavitation and Micro-Erosion Drittes Physikalisches Institut Universität Göttingen Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1 37077 Göttingen, Germany Carlos Cairós Barreto Christian-Doppler...

langerhans cell histiocytosis (lch) is a rare disorder described as three different entities including eosinophilic granulomaof bone, the hand-schuller-christian syndrome, and letterer-siwe disease. lch is currently classified into singlesystem lch, and multisystem lch. patients with single system lch have an excellent prognosis, and are mostlytreated with local therapy. multisystem lch is subd...

AMONG cases of proptosis, I have met with three in which the causative lesion proved to be a form of lipoid granulomatosis, also known as lipoidosis and xanthomatosis. Two of these cases will be presented in this paper; in the third (Handousa, 1949) the lesion was mainly manifested in the temporal bones simulating double mastoiditis. The term lipoidosis covers several clinically distinguishable...

This article describes the ways in which women in the coastal Papuan (Indonesian) town of Manokwari understand and represent HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). Having employed focus group interviewing and other qualitative research methods during long-term fieldwork conducted in Manokwari, I argue that my subjects frame ideas about disease aetiolo...