The Editorial Board advises the editorial team on all important issues and are selected by the Board of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society) upon recommendation by the Editorial Board and the editorial team. After 19 years on the Editorial Board (and 10 years as its Chairman) FranÅois Diederich will now join the International Advisory Board (see below). Hartmut Mi...

Habilitation of infants and children with visual impairments should be based on a thorough understanding of their visual capabilities and limitations. Comprehensive evaluation of visual function includes measurement of visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, visual field, color vision, adaptation, visual sphere, accommodation, and oculomotor functions. It is best completed through a team approach ...

Nicholas J. Strausfeld was born in Surrey and raised in Brighton, Sussex. He received his B. Sc. and Ph.D. from University College London (1965, 1968) and his German Habilitation from the University of Frankfurt. After 19 years in Germany, first at Frankfurt’s Zoology Institute, later the MPI Tübingen and EMBL Heidelberg, he was appointed full professor in 1987 in the Division of Neurobiology a...

In this cumulative Habilitation thesis, I have collected and discussed the publications that came out of my research during the last five years. Evolving around the main theme of weak-coupling expansions in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at finite temperature, one of the key achievements of this research line is the successful implementation of four-loop perturbative computations. This level of p...

Franz Peherstorfer was born in Zwettl an der Rodl, a village near Linz, the provincial capital of Upper Austria. After attending elementary and secondary schools in and around Linz, he matriculated in the newly founded Johannes Kepler Universität Linz1 in 1970 where he obtained his university degrees, Masters (1975) and Ph.D.2 (1977), both with summa cum laude. He was appointed as Assistent the...

This manuscript of Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches enlights some results obtained since my PhD, I defended in 2007. The presented results have been mainly published in international conferences and journals. Exponential-time algorithms are given to solve various decision, optimization and enumeration problems. First, we are interested in solving the L(2,1)-labeling problem for which sever...

Introduction Large vestibular aqueduct syndrome (LVAS) is characterized by the enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct associated with sensorineural hearing loss. It is the most common radiographically detectable inner ear anomaly in congenital hearing loss. LVAS may occur as an isolated anomaly or in association with other inner ear malformations. Objective To report three cases of isolated LVA...

Two studies illustrate the use of the auditory steady-state response (ASSR) in the pediatric clinical audiology setting. A protocol for estimating bone-conduction thresholds from ASSR was developed. Bone-conducted narrow-band noise was used to mask the ASSR for a 1.0-kHz modulated tone. The amount of bone-conducted noise needed to mask the ASSR may distinguish between infants and children with ...