appointed by the Lancet to examine and report on the condition of asylums. As far as the appointment of this commission by the Lancet is concerned, we feel that we are only expressing the opinion of asylum proprietors and superintendents by stating that it was quite uncalled for. We have our Board of Commissioners, who sufficiently inspect our asylums and publish their reports thereon, and we a...

We present the epitaxial growth of Ge and Ge0.94Sn0.06 layers with 1.4% and 0.4% tensile strain, respectively, by reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition on relaxed GeSn buffers and the formation of high-k/metal gate stacks thereon. Annealing experiments reveal that process temperatures are limited to 350 °C to avoid Sn diffusion. Particular emphasis is placed on the electrical characterizat...

A current review and update of an exceedingly novel and appealing topic, namely natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), is discussed, as well as the authors’ viewpoint thereon. Most reviewed studies were performed in laboratory animals, but reports on transvaginal cholecystectomy and the emergence of editorials and review articles on this topic pose a number of as yet unanswere...

In this paper, we describe DELI (‘Development Interactive’), a method and software system that supports the product concept development phase by multi-functional product development teams using Marketing Engineering methods. After motivating our research, we present core concepts underlying DELI: a data model encompassing customer and product attributes and preferences as well as a questionnair...

A distinctive characteristic of reactive concurrent systems is that their sets of local states have descriptions which are both short and manageable, and the complexity of their behaviour comes from highly complicated interactions with the external environment rather than from complicated data structures and manipulations thereon [13]. One way of coping with this complexity problem is to use fo...

We survey recent progress in the application of nanoindentation to characterize the local mechanical properties of polymer gels and biological tissues. We review the theories, analytical models based thereon, and data processing techniques commonly used to determine elastic properties of these classes of materials by instrumented nanoindentation. Examples from the testing of synthetic and biolo...

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In the framework of a five-dimensional three-brane model with quasi-localized gravitons we evaluate metric perturbations induced on the positive tension brane by matter residing thereon. We find that at intermediate distances, the effective four-dimensional theory coincides, up to small corrections, with General Relativity. This is in accord with Csaki, Erlich and Hollowood and in contrast to D...

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