Triboelektrostatická separácia minerálnej substancie zo slovenského uhlia V článku sú diskutované niektoré technické aspekty triboelektrostatickej separácie a výsledky aplikácie tohto postupu pri úprave troch typov uhlia, konkrétne energetického uhlia z Cígľa, Handlovej a Novák. Bolo zistené, že účinnosť separácie veľmi úzko závisí na druhu separovan uhlia. Prvé výsledky preukázali súvislosť me...

The progress of information technology (IT) in the past few decades has, of course, created new opportunities but also unprecedented challenges to the existing legal framework. The rights and duties of IT providers and end users have been facing a paradigm shift from conventional norms and it is encouraging to note that institutions at national, regional and international levels have sought evi...

European enquiry into the nature and meaning of the world started in ancient Greece. By the fourth century BC, a substantial body of philosophy emanated from several schools: from Thales and his followers in the city of Miletos in Ionia in Asia Minor, from the Pythagorean school in Croton (Crotone) in Calabria, and from the Eleatic School in Sicily. The Sophist philosophy of Protagoras, Hippias...

The proceedings of the 2nd Annual Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank summarize the most contemporary clinical, electrophysiological, and computational work on DBS for the treatment of neurological and neuropsychiatric disease and represent the insights of a unique multidisciplinary ensemble of expert neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, scientists, engineers and member...

Contrasting with improved survival for most other gastrointestinal cancers, the 5-year survival of patients with ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas remains low at a dismal 4%. In 2000, an estimated 28,300 patients were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States These patients can expect to benefit from some progress in management. Minimally invasive procedures such as helical comp...

Rachel D. Torok, MD; Jennifer S. Li, MD; Prince J. Kannankeril, MD; Andrew M. Atz, MD; Raafat Bishai, MD; Ellen Bolotin, MD, PhD; Stefanie Breitenstein, MD; Cathy Chen, MD, MSc; Thomas Diacovo, MD; Timothy Feltes, MD; Patricia Furlong, BSN, MS; Michael Hanna, MD; Eric M. Graham, MD; Daphne Hsu, MD; D. Dunbar Ivy, MD; Dianne Murphy, MD*; Lisa A. Kammerman, PhD; Gregory Kearns, PharmD, PhD; John ...

The National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute convened a Think Tank meeting to obtain insight and recommendations regarding the objectives and design of the next generation of research aimed at reducing health inequities in the United States. The panel recommended several specific actions, including: 1) embrace broad and inclusive research themes; 2) develop research platforms that optimize th...

Dr. Pedro Antonio Noguera is a professor of education at Harvard University. He is also past-president of the Berkeley School Board. Originally presented to the Latino Think Tank on Violence Prevention, Charles R. Drew University, Medical School in 1991, this analysis (© 1996) is published here by In Motion Magazine as a series of hyper-linked articles which can be downloaded in segments. All s...

Integration of research experience into classroom is an important and vital experience for all undergraduates. These course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have grown from independent instructor lead projects to large consortium driven experiences. The impact and importance of CUREs on students at all levels in biochemistry was the focus of a National Science Foundation funded ...