OBJECTIVE Medical students encounter specific stressors during their studies. As a result, they develop anxiety, depression and burnout symptoms more frequently than their similarly aged, but employed counterparts. In 1984, Vitaliano et al. published a 13-item instrument for the measurement of stress specific to medical school: the "Perceived Medical School Stress Instrument" (PMSS). Since then...

In German history, nationalism is the key to understanding the people and their history. The problem is that many see German nationalism as the events leading up to and following National Socialism, or Nazism. Others ignore the other major events in Germany’s history or see them as insignificant in comparison. It is true that Hitler and the Nazis were a major component in German history and it ...

Partners University of Plymouth, U.K. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Soesterberg The Netherlands Imperial College, London, U.K. University of Hertfordshire, U.K. Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor, Milan, Italy National Research Council...

The 6th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2008) was hosted, together with the co-located 31th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI2008), by the University of Kaiserslautern and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). From September 23th until Septmeber 26th 2008 mostly European research groups presented their work in six sessions frame...

trum f ¨ ur K ¨ unstliche Intelligenz, DFKI) with sites in Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken is a non-profit organization which was founded in 1988. The shareholder com-The DFKI conducts application-oriented basic research in the field of artificial intelligence and other related subfields of computer science. The overall goal is to construct systems with technical knowledge and common sense which...

Two S-Band klystrons operating at 150 MW have been designed, fabricated and tested at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) during the past two years for use in an experimental accelerator at Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg Germany. Both klystrons operate at the design power, 60 Hz repetition rate, 3 ps pulsewidth, with an efficiency > 40%, and agreement between the e...

Camera-captured document images usually contain two main types of marginal noise: textual noise (coming from neighboring pages) and non-textual noise (resulting from the page surrounding and/or binarization process). These types of marginal noise degrade the performance of the preprocessing (dewarping) of camera-captured document images and subsequent document digitization/recognition processes...

The geographic origin of bats is still unknown, and fossils of earliest bats are rare and poorly diversified, with, maybe, the exception of Europe. The earliest bats are recorded from the Early Eocene of North America, Europe, North Africa and Australia where they seem to appear suddenly and simultaneously. Until now, the oldest record in Asia was from theMiddle Eocene. In this paper, we report...