3 4 5 6 7 Miriam Kron, Jasper L. Zimmermann, Mathias Dutschmann, Frank Funke, 8 and Michael Müller 9 10 11 12 1 DFG Research Center Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB), 13 Zentrum für Physiologie und Pathophysiologie, 14 Abteilung Neuround Sinnesphysiologie, 15 16 2 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, 17 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 18 Göttingen, Germany 19 20 21 22 23 ...

The present paper examines the hypothesis thar trait cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood form the temperamental basis of the sense of humour. American(N = 263)and German (N = 151) adults filled in the state-trait cheerfulness inventory and a sense of humour scale. Correlations between the two inventories showed that trait cheerfulness accounted for most of the variance-in the sense of humou...

OBJECTIVES To assess the frequency, impact, and medical response to the restless legs syndrome (RLS) in a large multi-national primary care population. METHOD Questionnaire surveys of matched patients and primary care physicians (PCPs) in five modern industrialized western countries. RESULTS An RLS screening questionnaire was completed by 23,052 patients: 2223 (9.6%) reported weekly RLS sym...

A stopped-flow investigation of the electron-transfer reaction between oxidized azurin and reduced Pseudomonas aeruginosa cytochrome c-551 oxidase and between reduced azurin and oxidized Ps. aeruginosa cytochrome c-551 oxidase was performed. Electrons leave and enter the oxidase molecule via its haem c component, with the oxidation and reduction of the haem d1 occurring by internal electron tra...

We present a novel combination of classic anisotropic diffusion filters, a-priori estimated orientation fields and a locally adaptive contrast enhancement step for improving the quality of fingerprint images. By applying our new approach to low-quality images of the FVC2004 fingerprint databases, we are able to show its equivalency to state-of-the-art enhancement methods for fingerprints. Linea...

INTRODUCTION Since the establishment of the Uganda Rheumatic Heart Registry, over 900 patients have been enrolled. We sought to stratify the patients in the registry according to disease severity and optimal management strategy. METHODS We reviewed data of 618 patients who had enrolled in the Registry between March 2010 and February 2013. The 67 patients who had died were excluded leaving 551...

We present new optical spectroscopic and XMM-Newton X-ray observations of the Active Galactic Nucleus H1320+551. The optical data (consistent with but of better quality than a previously published spectrum) show this source to be a Seyfert 1.8/1.9 galaxy at z = 0.0653. The narrow line region is significantly reddened, with a Balmer decrement Hα/Hβ ∼ 6 and the broad line region, with a barely de...

We establish a new estimate for the topological degree of continuous maps from the sphere SN into itself, which answers a question raised in Bourgain, Brezis, and Mironescu [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 58 (2005) 529–551] and extends some of the results proved there, as well as in recent work by these authors (Lifting, degree, and distributional Jacobian revisited, http://ann.jussieu.fr/publication...

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals’ tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very heterogeneous within skill grou...

A quantitative liquid chromatography/ion trap mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous determination of paclitaxel, 6alpha-hydroxypaclitaxel and p-3'-hydroxypaclitaxel in human plasma has been developed and validated. 6alpha-,p-3'-Dihydroxypaclitaxel was also quantified using paclitaxel as a reference and docetaxel as an internal standard. The substances were extracted from 0.500 mL plasma...