In this article the issue of textual organisation is analysed from the viewpoint of thematicprogression. We propose to study the extent to which the different thematic networks orprogressions established within a text vary depending on the type of text, namely in thisinstance a specialised scientific text and a popularised account. Some possible didactic offshootsfrom this analy...

Originalarbeiten Binder T, Assayag P, Baer FM, Flachskampf F, Kamp O, Nienaber C, Nihoyannopoulos, P, Pierard L, Steg G, Vanoverschelde JL, van der Wouw P, Meland N, Marelli C, Lindvall K NC100100, a new echo contrast agent for the assessment of myocardial perfusion safety and comparison with technetium-99m sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomography in a randomized multicenter study C...

The properties of Bose-Einstein condensed gases can be strongly altered by tuning the external magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance. Feshbach resonances affect elastic collisions and lead to the observed modification of the scattering length. However, we found that this is accompanied by a strong increase in the rate of inelastic collisions. The observed three-body loss rate increased when ...

This paper gives an overview of the KULRoT 99 team. This team is based on our last year’s team. The major problem we experienced with KULRoT 98 was a slow reaction time. The cause of this problem was related to bad synchronization and an insufficient notion of time. To tackle this problem, we switched to a new architecture that gives each soccer player a better notion of time. Preliminary resul...

The role of the corpus-callosum in processing information in the brain is still unclear. In order to understand what effect callosal connections have in cortical processing, this paper analyses the factors influencing the development of both intraand interhemispherical connections. Experimentally it has been observed that short-range pyramidal connections in visual cortex are largely orientatio...

has indeed been a great pleasure and an honor to have the opportunity to serve as your president during this last year, a special one, I think, as it takes us to the year 2000. As I began my research for this address, I came across this quote from Jacques Perissat, one of the leaders in minimally invasive surgery in Europe, who wrote in the World Journal of Surgery, " For a surgeon who performe...

T he authors summarize the main events in the long life of Szilárd Donhoffer and his importance in founding thermoregulatory research at Pécs, Hungary. We, two pupils and disciples of Professor Szilárd Donhoffer, wish hereby to recognize and honor his transcendent contributions to experimental physiology and pathophysiology in general, and to thermoregulatory research in particular. Prof. Donho...

I n preparing my comment on Truman Bewley’s work, I had the privilege of reading a draft of Professor Bewley’s forthcoming book, Why Wages Don’t Fall During a Recession. This book describes an extensive field study, in which Professor Bewley interviewed hundreds of business managers and labor leaders, seeking to understand the puzzling phenomenon of wage rigidity. The paper presented here is an...