Hans Asperger studied mental abnormalities in children in Vienna, Austria, in the early twentieth century. Asperger was one of the early researchers who studied the syndrome that was later named after him, Asperger's Syndrome. Asperger described the syndrome in his 1944 publication Die Autistischen Psychopathen im Kindesalter (Autistic Psychopathy in Childhood). At that time, the syndrome was c...

The concept of polycentricity has gained significance in discussions on spatial development in Europe in recent years. This paper presents new evidence on polycentric city networks in Central-Eastern Europe based on selected results of the ESPON project POLYCE (Metropolisation and Polycentric Development in Central Europe). The authors discuss existing applications of the concept in the context...

was the case of 'Little Hans'. In 1905, Sigmund Freud described how phobias in the five-year-old boy had been treated analytically. From this starting point, a body of knowledge has been built up about disturbances in the behaviour pattern of children and adolescents and about the therapeutic methods for dealing with them in this way. Obviously, the child psychotherapist must know and understan...

We examine the spatial version of the persistence problem. In temporal reasoning, this is the problem of determining whether or not the validity of a fact at some point in time persists until another point in time, given that certain events or processes may happen in between. We show that its analog does intuitively exist in spatial reasoning, and review under the aspect of transferability to s...

This study aimed to analyze the results of a modified continuous quilting sutures technique in a series of patients presenting with hematoma and/or abscess of nasal septum (HANS). Only patients with a confirmed diagnosis of HANS without co-morbid conditions (which could predispose to a bleeding tendency), were selected. Following incision and drainage, nasal septal flaps were coapted by applyin...