acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) is a complex disorder of heterogeneous etiologies characterized by a consistent, recognizable pattern of lung injury and a potentially devastating form of acute inflammatory lung injury with a high short-term mortality rate and significant long-term consequences among survivors. recently, the new definition of ards has been published, and this definiti...

Forming, storming, norming and performing [1] – a well-known phase-modulation model of team building is probably reliable to describe the changeful relationship of Berlin Cultural and Berlin Digital in the Melting Pot of the metropolis. The pretty, shy bride awkwardly meets a nerdy, hyperactive groom when after the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989, the wedding looms on the horizon:...

Model-aided radiometric determination of photolysis frequencies in a sunlit atmosphere simulation chamber B. Bohn and H. Zilken Institut für Chemie und Dynamik der Geosphäre II: Troposphäre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany Zentralinstitut für Angewandte Mathematik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany Received: 3 September 2004 – Accepted: 15 October 2004 – Published:...

ROVERS: AN OVERVIEW. R. V. Morris, G. Klingelhöfer, D. W. Ming, C. Schröder, D. Rodionov, A. Yen, R. Gellert, and the Athena Science Team. ARES, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058 ([email protected]). Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Analytische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 9, 55128 Mainz, Germany. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute o...

Heterogeneous conversion of NO2 on secondary organic aerosol surfaces: A possible source of nitrous acid (HONO) in the atmosphere? R. Bröske, J. Kleffmann, and P. Wiesen Physikalische Chemie/FB 9, Bergische Universität – Gesamthochschule Wuppertal (BUGHW), D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany Received: 18 November 2002 – Accepted: 6 January 2003 – Published: 7 February 2003 Correspondence to: J. Kleffman...

N-Acetylanthranilate Amidase from Arthrobacter nitroguajacolicus Rü61a, an / -Hydrolase-Fold Protein Active towards Aryl-Acylamides and -Esters, and Properties of Its Cysteine-Deficient Variant † Stephan Kolkenbrock, Katja Parschat, Bernd Beermann, Hans-Jürgen Hinz, and Susanne Fetzner* Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, and Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Westfälische...

Melih K. Sener,† Deyu Lu,†,‡ Thorsten Ritz,§ Sanghyun Park,†,‡ Petra Fromme,#,⊥ and Klaus Schulten*,†,‡ Beckman Institute, UniVersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, Department of Physics, UniVersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniVersity, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, Max-Volmer ...

1 Functional Characterization of the Amino-Terminal Region of Myosin-2 Setsuko Fujita-Becker, Georgios Tsiavaliaris, Reiko Ohkura, Takashi Shimada, Dietmar J. Manstein, and Kazuo Sutoh From the Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung, Jahnstr. 29, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Carl-Neubergstr.1, 30623 Hannover, Germany,...

H. M. Gleiter10, N. Ohadb, J. Hirschbergb, R. Frommea, G. Rengera, H. Koikec, and Y. Inouec a M ax-V olm er-Institut für Physikalische und Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische U niversität Berlin, B undesrepublik D eutschland b D epartm ent o f Genetics, The H ebrew U niversity o f Jerusalem , Jerusalem 91904, Israel c The Institute o f Physical and Chem ical R esearch (RIK.EN), W ako, Saitam a ...

Osama Shekhah,*,† Hui Wang,† Stefan Kowarik,‡ Frank Schreiber,‡ Michael Paulus,§ Metin Tolan,§ Christian Sternemann,§ Florian Evers,§ Denise Zacher,| Roland A. Fischer,| and Christof Wöll*,† Ruhr-UniVersität Bochum, Physikalische Chemie 1, 44780 Bochum, Germany, UniVersität Tübingen, Angewandte Physik, 72074 Tübingen, Germany, UniVersität Dortmund, Experimentelle Physik I, 44227 Dortmund, Germa...