A typical classical interference pattern of two waves with intensities I 1 , I 2 and relative phase ϕ = ϕ 2 − ϕ 1 may be characterized by the 3 observables p = √ I 1 I 2 , p cos ϕ, and −p sin ϕ. They are, e.g. the starting point for the semi-classical operational approach by Noh, Fougères and Mandel (NFM) to the old and notorious phase problem in quantum optics. Following a recent group theoret...

Objective. It is hypothesized that the pathogenesis of (PE) is accompanied by alterations in immunoregulation that may affect normal turnover of peripheral neurons and release of cytoskeletal components (principally neurofilaments). Since this is expected to alter serum levels of antibodies to neurofilament epitopes, the possibility exists to utilize this parameter as a biomarker for severity o...

interpretation is a theory of abstraction and constructive approximation of the mathematical structures used in the formal description of programming languages and the inference or verification of undecidable program properties. Developed in the late seventies with Radhia Cousot, it has since then been considerably applied to many aspects of programming, from syntax, to semantics, and proof met...

This study aimed at assessing the effects of diazoxon (DZO), a major metabolite of the insecticide diazinon (DZ), on key cytoskeletal proteins in differentiating N2a neuroblastoma cells. Initial experiments established that sublethal concentrations of 1, 5 and 10 μM DZO produced profound inhibition of neurite outgrowth. Densitometric scanning of probed immunoblots of N2a cell lysates demonstrat...

BACKGROUND Complex ventricular reconstruction (CVR) is now being employed increasingly thanks to the pioneering work of Dor. However, little is known about the failure mode of CVR. We present experience from three centres with CVR and an analysis of the failure modes. METHODS Between January 1997 and February 2005, 284 patients underwent CVR in three centres in Australia and USA. All of the p...

Because transgenic mice expressing an altered stoichiometry of neurofilament proteins develop a motor neuron degeneration associated with neurofilamentous aggregate formation similar to that found in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), we studied the expression of intermediate filament proteins in sporadic ALS. Archival cervical spinal cord paraffin-embedded sections from 11 disease and 11 con...

We investigated mechanisms underlying progressive axonal dysfunction and structural deficits in type 1 BB/Wor-rats from 1 week to 10 month diabetes duration. Motor and sensory conduction velocities were decreased after 4 and 6 weeks of diabetes and declined further over the remaining 9 months. Myelinated sural nerve fibers showed progressive deficits in fiber numbers and sizes. Structural defic...

Much is still unknown about the long-term effects of repeated, sub-lethal exposure to organophosphorus (OP) nerve agents, such as soman (GD), on learning and memory tasks and related protein expression in the hippocampus. In the present study, guinea pigs were exposed to sub-lethal doses of GD for 10 days and cognitive performance assessed using the Morris water maze (MWM) up to 88 days post-ex...

The Rural Development Regulation (RDR) within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), as an exemplary manifestation of the New Rural Development Paradigm, has achieved significant results. Nevertheless, it has increasingly become liable to institutional complexity and central control in an emerging system – discussed as ‘the project state’ or ‘projectified world’ in recent literature. The interse...