IV. PATENTABILITY OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS IN EUROPE............................................................................ 583 A. The European Patent Convention............................. 583 B. Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions ...... 589 1. Procedure for Adoption of a Directi...

This paper is concernedwith the analysis of theworst case behavior of Hopcroft’s algorithm for minimizing deterministic finite state automata. We extend a result of Castiglione, Restivo and Sciortino. They show that Hopcroft’s algorithm has a worst case behavior for the automata recognizing Fibonacci words. In a previous paper, we have proved that this holds for all standard Sturmian words havi...

UNLABELLED The term Rollover hands (ROHs) corresponds to a loss of compound tissue from the back of the hand. Our aim was to specify the injuries associated with this type of accident and codify the therapeutic strategy. PATIENTS AND METHOD Twenty-one ROHs were reviewed with an average follow-up of 38 months. Skin coverage included 15 pedicle flaps (two posterior interosseous, 13 pedicled gro...

UNLABELLED Runs of homozygosity (RoHs) are genomic stretches of a diploid genome that show identical alleles on both chromosomes. Longer RoHs are unlikely to have arisen by chance but are likely to denote autozygosity, whereby both copies of the genome descend from the same recent ancestor. Early tools to detect RoH used genotype array data, but substantially more information is available from ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the emotional impact of physician-initiated advance directive discussions. METHODS One hundred ambulatory patients aged 65 years and older were randomly assigned to receive either a physician-initiated discussion of advance directive choices of a discussion of health promotion issues. Prediscussion, immediate postdiscussion, and 1-week postdiscussion measures ...

A case is first presented in which a woman carries a foetus with Turner syndrome. Thereafter, the development of non-directiveness to a standard in genetic counselling is described, and the concepts of directive and non-directive counselling are analysed critically. Next, the treatment of Turner syndrome in medical texts and websites is examined in detail. Finally, it is argued that the concept...

The fates of organic hydroperoxides (ROOHs) in atmospheric condensed phases are key to understanding the oxidative and toxicological potentials particulate matter. Recently, mass spectrometric detection ROOHs as chloride anion adducts has revealed that liquid-phase α-hydroxyalkyl hydroperoxides, derived from hydration carbonyl oxides (Criegee intermediates), decompose geminal diols H2O2 over a ...

The fundamental mechanism behind directive beaming at broadside for various structures will be explored. These include Fabry-Pérot type of resonant-cavity antennas, low-permittivity metamaterial substrate antennas composed of a wire medium slab, and optical directive beaming due to plasmonic effects. In all cases it will be shown that the fundamental explanation for the directive beaming effect...

There has been major interest in Lead-free soldering within the electronics assembly industry for the last several years, and this will continue with the agreement on the language and implementation dates of the WEEE/ROHS legislation in the EU. This paper will focus on several topics critical to the implementation of lead-free soldering. These topics include the impact of Tin-silver-copper as t...

■ Wide supply voltage, 1.71 V to 3.6 V ■ Independent IOs supply (1.8 V) and supply voltage compatible ■ Ultra low-power mode consumption down to 2 μA ■ ±2g/±4g/±8g/±16g dynamically selectable fullscale ■ I2C/SPI digital output interface ■ 16 bit data output ■ 2 independent programmable interrupt generators for free-fall and motion detection ■ 6D/4D orientation detection ■ Free-fall detection ■ ...