We present the analysis of FEROS commissioning spectra of 3 giants in the metal poor cluster Be 21. One of the giants has an exceptionally high Li content, comparable to the original Li in the solar system. These objects are very rare (only a handful are known), and this is the first Super Lithium Rich giant (SLIR) discovered in an open cluster. The reasons for such a high Li abundance are unkn...

Since Isaacs made that statement, further giants of geriatric medicine, such as iatrogenesis, have been added to the list. The concept of geriatric syndromes has been universally accepted with internationally agreed-upon definitions and numerous guidelines for assessment and treatment. The last decade has seen a burgeoning interest in yet another giant: the frailty syndrome. Frailty can be thou...

On examination of a breast mass surgically excised in a 69-years-old woman, a pure invasive micropapillary carcinoma (MPC) was diagnosed (Figure 1). At close examination, intensely eosinophilic syncytial-multinucleated giant cells (CD68+) percolating the stromal bands were identified (Figure 1). The breast carcinoma illustrated here shows therefore a combination of 2 rarities, namely, an invasi...

This is a record of the experiences in a mental hospital of a patient suffering (apparently) from paranoid schizophrenia. As it is stated on the cover that the patient has recovered from his illness and that he has written the book under his own name, it is very difficult to make any comment from the clinical point of view without running the risk of doing harm. He himself has recorded and disc...

We study giant graviton probes in the framework of the three–parameter deformation of the AdS5 × S background. We examine both the case when the brane expands in the deformed S̃ part of the geometry and the case when it blows up into AdS5. Performing a detailed analysis of small fluctuations around the giants, the configurations turn out to be stable. Our results hold even for the supersymmetric...

The standard Erdős-Renyi model of random graphs begins with n isolated vertices, and at each round a random edge is added. Parametrizing n2 rounds as one time unit, a phase transition occurs at t = 1 when a giant component (one of size constant time n) first appears. Under the influence of statistical mechanics, the investigation of related phase transitions has become an important topic in ran...