In his article "On World Literature Studies" Ning Wang argues that cultural studies is characterized by being opposed to (elite) literary studies not only because it points to popular or non discipline of comparative literature. On the other hand literary studies in that it contributes a great deal to the reconstruction of a sort of new comparative literature. Wang illustrates how some of the r...

Dieser Aufsatz ist ein Plädoyer für eine pluralistische Wissensrepräsentation in der KI und somit indirekt auch ein Plädoyer für die Logik. Wenn er dennoch als Beitrag gegen Logik in einem Sonderheft über Logik in der KI erscheint, so liegt der Grund darin, daß die Logik gelegentlich als das einzig nützliche und notwendige Repräsentationsmittel für die KI, ja sogar für die gesamte Kognitionswis...

The pharmacokinetics of trovafloxacin following administration of a single intravenous dose of alatrofloxacin, equivalent to 4 mg of trovafloxacin per kg of body weight, were determined in 6 infants (ages 3 to 12 months) and 14 children (ages, 2 to 12 years). There was rapid conversion of alatrofloxacin to trovafloxacin, with an average +/- standard deviation (SD) peak trovafloxacin concentrati...

Aminoglycoside antibiotics are usually administered by multiple short intravenous infusions at fixed intervals. Today, equations reported 35 years ago by Sawchuk and Zaske are still the cornerstone of methods used for determination of patient-specific pharmacokinetic parameters of aminoglycosides and individualization of drug dosage regimens in many clinical settings. Additionally, these method...

In this article, the concept of “Literacy in Informatics” is developed in analogy with the literacy concept of OECD-PISA. To this end, competencies in informatics are grouped in three classes reflecting different kinds of informatics-related occupation. The idea of these classes is further illustrated by sample test items. A small number of pupils of a secondary school answered these items, whi...

Low cost RGB-D cameras such as the Microsoft’s Kinect or the Asus’s Xtion Pro are completely chan ging the comp uter vision world, as they are being successfully used in several applications and research areas. Depth data are particularly attractive and suitable for applications based on moving objects detection through foreground/background segmentation approaches; the RGB-D applications propo...

Background To investigate the role of the anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) signalling pathway in the pathophysiology of idiopathic primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) and age at natural menopause (ANM) using a genetic approach MaterialsAndMethods DNA sequencing was used to detect the genotype distribution and allele frequency of the genes AMH and AMH receptor II (AMHR2) in 120 cases of idiopathic P...

the variants of angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) and matrix metalloproteinases (mmps) genes might be involved in the pathogenesis of end stage renal disease (esrd) and hypertension. we studied the ace insertion/deletion (i/d) and mmp-7 a-181g variants in 99 unrelated esrd patients and 117 individuals without renal complications from western iran with kurdish ethnic background. the frequency ...

background: mutations of gjb2 gene encoding connexion 26 are the most common cause of hearing loss in many popula­tions. a very wide spectrum of gjb2 gene mutations associated with hearing loss have been detected but pathogenic role has been tested only for a part of them. in this study, we have provided genetic evidence on the pathogenicity of our previ­ously reported novel gjb2 allelic varian...