This article revisits social sustainability of compact urban neighbourhoods based on first-hand evidence from four case studies in London and Berlin. It suggests a working definition for socially sustainable neighbourhoods, develops tripartite integrative evaluation framework measuring applies it to Findings this research are line with some dominant arguments made favour form, but challenges ot...

long-term mechanical circulatory support is a life-saving technology while briding to heart transplantation. it increases the quality of life and preserves end-organ function for patients with  advanced heart failure. the number of patients with advanced heart failure scheduled for heart transplantation before comorbidities escalate is on the rise. however, the device function is complicated by...

With the development of information communication technologies, a number of alternative strategies to the traditional scholarly publishing system have been evolved. Among these, Open Access (OA) model which promise to be extremely advantageous to peers everywhere, especially to those who have acute shortage of resources for purchasing scholarly literature. The impetus of OA was boosted by the O...

MÖSSBAUER EVIDENCE FOR VARIABILITY IN THE OXIDATION STATE OF ADIRONDACK LAVAS. R. V. Morris, G. A. McKay, D. W. Ming, G. Klingelhöfer, C. Schröder, D. Rodionov, and A. Yen. ARES, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058 ([email protected]). Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Analytische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 9, 55128 Mainz, Germany. Jet Propulsion ...

für Naturforschung in cooperation with the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Dieses Werk wurde im Jahr 2013 vom Verlag Zeitschrift für Naturforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. digitalisiert und unter folgender Lizenz veröffentlicht: Creative Commons Namen...

A workshop on ‘The analysis of data’ was held in Edinburgh during the Joint Meeting of The Biochemical Society, the Gesellschaft fur Biologische Chemie and the Schweizerische Gesellschaft fur Biochemie (September 9-12, 1975). This workshop was organized by B. Hess, Max-Planck-Institute, Dortmund, and J. H. Ottaway, University of Edinburgh. Most of the material contained in the individual papers...

OBJECTIVE to review the evolution of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) definitions and present the current definition for the syndrome. DATA SOURCE a literature review and selection of the most relevant articles on ARDS definitions was performed using the MEDLINE®/PubMed® Resource Guide database (last ten years), in addition to including the most important articles (classic articles)...

Elena Aksel,z Peter Jakes, Emre Erdem, Donald M. Smyth, Andrew Ozarowski, Johan van Tol, Jacob L. Jones,z and Rüdiger-A. Eichel zDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Freiburg, Albertstr. 21, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bet...