submission for oral and poster presentation will be possible from December, 17, 2012 Oral Presentations will cover unpublished preliminary or finalized data, novel ideas and techniques and are 15 minutes in length. Poster sessions will also cover unpublished preliminary or finalized data, novel ideas and techniques, with the added value that viewers can study and restudy your information and di...

With a convicing defense of his work about the IP autoconfiguration of mobile ad hoc networks Kilian Weniger (fig. 1) today finished his doctorate with honor. He developed a modular architecture called PACMAN (Passive AutoConfiguration of Mobile Ad hoc Networks). PACMAN represents the first method that facilitates a really efficient and robust configuration of locally unambiguous IP addresses i...

The new radiation-transfer scheme RRTM is described in the article on page 2.The new scheme includes the representation of sixteen spectral bands, compared with six bands in the previous operational scheme.This allows improvements in the spectral description of the radiative properties of both the earth’s surface and the clouds.Tests of the impact of the scheme indicate improved anomaly correla...

It is our pleasure to provide this EMCREG International newsletter which discusses lactate as a marker in resuscitation for sepsis and trauma. While lactate testing has been in medical arena for over a century, its utility in the emergency department for the evaluation of these potentially critically ill patients is only now being recognized. This newsletter aims to review the present literatur...

In this first newsletter of 2017, we wanted to inform you about important developments concerning our journal and the performance of the journal in 2016. We also would like to draw your attention to the fourth issue of Advances in Cognitive Psychology of 2016, which is a special issue that includes several contributions to the Neuronus conference that was held in Kraków in 2015. The current new...

We analyze the advice contained in a sample of 237 investment newslettcr strategies over 1980-1992. Each newsletter strategy recommends a mix of equity and cash. We find no evidence that letters systematically increase equity weights before market rises or decrease weights before market declines. While there is no information in the newsletter strategies about future market returns, we document...

The West Virginia University Department of Anesthesiology has distributed a weekly newsletter to department members for several years. A recent survey and discussion among members found the newsletter to be useful and important in shaping the culture of the department and marketing it. A weekly format of three to five pages was judged best. News about anesthesiology, department policies, and pr...

This paper analyzes telecom consumer relationship by exploring customer switching behavior and classifying communication categories to support companies in planning applicable communication to thwart the consumer switching and improving consumer loyalty. Quantitative research is carried out by surveying 383 telecom consumers who have experienced the switching process. Findings uncover that tele...

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It is my pleasure to offer you the first issue of the Newsletter under the new editorship. The team, which includes Brooke Harrington as book review editor, Sebastian Kohl as editorial assistant and Christina Glasmacher who puts it all together, will publish this and the next two issues. We will keep the spirit of the Newsletter, and have a thematic structure of each issue. In the three issues,...