32 GHz observations with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope revealed a highly polarized Galactic Centre filament: G0.087−0.087, running parallel to the well-known Arc structure. It has a similar flat spectrum, but it is an order of magnitude weaker. G0.087−0.087 is about 2.5 or 6.2 pc long and located at the western boundary of the expanding molecular cloud G0.11−0.11. This unusual cloud is also vi...

(L'efficacité des équipes de commandement militaires : un modèle et un instrument pour l'évaluation et l'amélioration) This Technical Report has been prepared as a result of a project on " Team Effectiveness " for the RTO Human Factors and Medicine Panel (HFM-087/RTG-023).

The Lundehund is an old dog breed with remarkable anatomical features including polydactyly in all four limbs and extraordinary flexibility of the spine. We genotyped 28 Lundehund using the canine Illumina high density beadchip to estimate the effective population size (Ne) and inbreeding coefficients as well as to identify potential regions of positive selection. The decay of linkage disequili...

We examined the relationship between postoperative dietary intake (DI) of geriatric hip fracture (HF) patients and their functional and clinical course until 6 months after hospital discharge. In eighty-eight HF patients ≥ 75 years, postoperative DI was estimated with plate diagrams of main meals over four postoperative days. DI was stratified as >50, >25-50, ≤ 25 % of meals served. Functional ...

Background and Purpose—A stroke “weekend effect” on mortality has been demonstrated in other countries with a possible slight effect in the United States. We studied patients with stroke in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database for a weekend effect on thrombolytic use, in-hospital mortality, discharge disposition, hospital charges, and length of stay. Methods—The Nationwide Inpatient Sample ...

Eliahou, S., The 3x+ 1 problem: new lower bounds on nontrivial cycle lengths, Discrete Mathematics 118 (1993) 45556. Let 7’: N -+ N be the function defined by T(n) = n/2 if n is even, T(n) = (3n + 1)/2 if n is odd. We show, among other things, that any nontrivial cyclic orbit under iteration of T must contain at least 17 087 915 elements.