VATICAN CITY [AP) • Pope John Paul I assumed the throne of St. Peter and leadership of the world's 700 million Roman Catholics yesterday in solemn, outdoor rite marked by the simplicity already a hall-mark of his papacy. Breaking more than 1,000 years of tradition, the 65-year-old pontiff donned a simple white wool stole as the shepherd of his flock and concelebrated his inaugural Mass with the...

3D printing continues to find new uses as more people get familiar with the capabilities of this relatively new manufacturing tool. Professor Peter Choong at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital proved the adage “chance favours the prepared”. His patient faced losing a foot due to a cancerous heel, so he came up with the idea of a 3D-printed alternative. He engaged medical device company Anatomics...

12 McLaws ML, Pantle AC, Fitzpatrick KR, Hughes CF. More than hand hygiene is needed to affect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical indicator rates: Clean hands save lives, part IV. Med J Aust 2009;191 (8 Suppl):S26–S31. 13 Jain R, Kralovic SM, Evans ME, Ambrose M, Simbartl LA, Obrosky DS, et al. Veterans Affairs initiative to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

Oil-rich regions frequently fight separatist civil wars, consistent with the broader hypothesis that oil wealth diminishes prospects for civil peace. Although existing “greed” and “grievances” hypotheses highlight important attributes of oil production that may contribute to violence, we have few insights into a basic question about mechanisms: what prevents governments from strategically using...

Duplication of mitral valve is a very rare anomaly. It is characterized by two independent mitral valve apparatuses (leaflets and annulus) and subvalvular apparatuses (chordae and papillary muscles) that function well by themselves. In this report, we present duplicate mitral valve with parachute chordal attachment and mitral stenosis in an infant. The patient was successfully treated with the ...

Realizzazione di modelli di varie architetture di calcolatori paralleli (di tipo SIMD, MIMD e ibridi) e loro validazione sperimentale To Floriana Acknowledgments I would like to thank my supervisor Prof. Giuseppe Serazzi for the inspiration , guidance, friendship ooered throughout my studies. I feel a special gratitude towards Peter King and Paolo Cremonesi for their important contribution to t...

We prove that a suitably adjusted version of Peter Jones’ formula for interpolation in H∞ gives a sharp upper bound for what is known as the constant of interpolation. We show how this leads to precise and computable numerical bounds for this constant. With each finite or infinite sequence Z = (zj) (j = 1, 2, ...) of distinct points zj = xj + iyj in the upper half-plane of the complex plane, we...

A unique structure in the Earth's lowermost mantle, the Perm Anomaly, was recently identified beneath Eurasia. It seismologically resembles the large low-shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) under Africa and the Pacific, but is much smaller. This challenges the current understanding of the evolution of the plate-mantle system in which plumes rise from the edges of the two LLSVPs, spatially fixed i...

1 Baltimore City Infant Mortality: Leading Causes, Risk Factors, and Policy Solutions Introduction The infant mortality rate (IMR) is an important health statistic used by health agencies, economists, government officials, media, and many others as a key indicator of a nation, region, or city’s overall health and standard of living. In addition, the causes of infant mortality contribute, per-pe...

Principle Investigators: Ferdinand Evers, Peter Woelfle CFN-Financed Scientists: Soumya Bera M.Sc. (2/3 position 2 years); collaborating Dr. A. Bagrets (full position, 4 months from C3.11) Further Scientists: Prof. Dr. A. Mirlin, Dr. P. Ostrovsky, Dr. I. Gornyi, Prof. W. Wulfhekel, Dr. F. Pauly, Prof. G. Schoen, Prof. M. Mayor External partners: Dr. I. Burmistrov (Landau Institute), Dr. M. Tito...