When Reform Comes into Play: Budgeting as Negotiations between Administrations In this article budgeting is considered as a game. It is analysed in an area of public budgeting that usually remains behind the scenes to research: the intra-administrative negotiating structures by which money is distributed. Taking the example of the highly indebted metropolis Berlin, the administrations were conf...

Our previous studies on rabbits demonstrated that the ventral spinal pathways are of primary importance for postural control in the hindquarters. After ventral hemisection, postural control did not recover, whereas after dorsal or lateral hemisection it did. The aim of this study was to examine postural capacity of rabbits after more extensive lesion (3/4 section of the spinal cord at T(12) lev...

Let us remind that Sommerfeld model of charged rigid sphere [1] (Sommerfeld particle) is the simplest theoretical model to take into consideration the ”back-reaction” of self-electromagnetic field on equation of motion of a radiating extended charged body (for point-like charge we have the known LorentzDirac equation with all its problems: renormalization of mass, preacceleration, runaway solut...

“Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.” — Niels Bohr, 1923 “There must be quite definite and clear grounds, why you repeatedly declare that one must interpret observations classically, which lie absolutely in their essence. . . . It must belong to your deepest conviction—and I cannot understand on what you b...

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), an oriental herbal medicine, has been shown to favorably affect choleretic, antirheumatic and diuretin properties. Recent reports have indicated that excessive oxidative stress contributes to the development of atherosclerosis-linked metabolic syndrome. The objective of this current study was to investigate the possible hypolipidemic and antioxidative effects o...

BACKGROUND Myocardial infarct scars are usually imaged by delayed-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance (DE-cMR). In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the detection and quantification of myocardial scars can be evaluated by 3D echocardiography (3D-echo). METHODS AND RESULTS Fifty patients with a healed myocardial infarction (>3 months) and 10 controls underwent 3D echo and DE-cMR within...

The Committee* appointed by the Society beg to present their Report on the evidence which the present state of medical knowledge supplies as to the conditions affecting the protection afforded by vaccination against death-f* by small-pox occurring in persons contracting that disease. In the first instance they desire to cordially thank those medical men who have assisted them to obtain the info...

Long-term protection of rabbits that had been vaccinated with two doses of a recombinant protective antigen (rPA) vaccine was examined against an aerosol spore challenge with the Ames isolate of Bacillus anthracis at 6 and 12 months. At 6 months after the primary injection, survival was 74.1% (20/27) with quantitative ELISA titer of 22.3 microg of anti-rPA IgG per millilitre and toxin neutraliz...

By contrasting Hippocratic and nineteenth century theories of disease, this paper describes important conceptual changes that have taken place in the history of medicine. Disease concepts are presented as causal networks that represent the relations among the symptoms, causes, and treatment of a disease. The transition to the germ theory of disease produced dramatic conceptual changes as the re...

1. The blood cholesterol of rabbits on a normal diet without added cholesterol is increased only slightly (19 per cent) by thyroidectomy. 2. In rabbits with a hypercholesterolemia due to long continued cholesterol feeding, thyroidectomy causes a marked rise (137 per cent) in the blood cholesterol. This rise is usually maintained. 3. When long continued cholesterol feeding has failed to cause a ...