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Urban Risk Reduction and Adaptation: How to Promote Resilient Communities and Adapt to Increasing Disasters and Changing Climatic Conditions?

From Features via Frames to Spaces: Modeling Scientific Conceptual Change Without Incommensurability or Aprioricity

Etiopathogenesis of insulin autoimmunity.

Autoimmunity against pancreatic islet beta cells is strongly associated with proinsulin, insulin, or both. The insulin autoreactivity is particularly pronounced in children with young age at onset of type 1 diabetes. Possible mechanisms for (pro)insulin autoimmunity may involve beta-cell destruction resulting in proinsulin peptide presentation on HLA-DR-DQ Class II molecules in pancreatic draining

Nocturnal migratory songbirds adjust their travelling direction aloft: evidence from a radiotelemetry and radar study.

Can architectural design alter the physiological reaction to psychosocial stress? A virtual TSST experiment.

Candidate genes for colour and vision exhibit signals of selection across the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) breeding range

Modeling of the long-term behavior of glassy polymers

Structure reconsidered: Towards new foundations of explanatory transitions theory

Absorbed power distributions from two tilted waveguide applicators

Does passive sound attenuation affect responses to pitch-shifted auditory feedback?

Cerebrospinal fluid phospho-tau, total tau and beta-amyloid(1-42) in the differentiation between Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

ERK1/2 inhibition increases antiestrogen treatment efficacy by interfering with hypoxia-induced downregulation of ERalpha: a combination therapy potentially targeting hypoxic and dormant tumor cells.

DynaReP: a discrete event simulation model for re-planning of software releases

Software release planning can be described as a process consisting of the following three phases: (i) strategic release planning, i.e., the assignment of features to subsequent releases; (ii) operational release planning, i.e., the allocation of resources to tasks within each individual release; and (iii) dynamic re-planning, i.e., the revision of plans in order to handle unexpected changes impose

Measurements of the binding force between the Helicobacter pylori adhesin BabA and the Lewis b blood group antigen using optical tweezers

Experimental evidence for sub-3-fs charge transfer from an aromatic adsorbate to a semiconductor

The ultrafast timescale of electron transfer processes is crucial to their role in many biological systems and technological devices. In dye-sensitized solar cells(1-4), the electron transfer from photoexcited dye molecules to nanostructured semiconductor substrates needs to be sufficiently fast to compete effectively against loss processes and thus achieve high solar energy conversion efficiencie

Thalidomide inhibits early atherogenesis in apoE-deficient mice

Modeling through drying of tissue-effect of pore size distribution on drying characteristics

A general model for through drying of tissue was developed based on the equations of continuity in combination with correlations for heat and mass transfer. The model incorporates different geometric descriptions together with corresponding heat and mass transfer correlations for flow through cylindrical conduits and flow through packed beds of cylindrical fibers. At low intensities, i.e., at low

Between Fall and Fall-Rise : Substance-Function Relations in German Phrase-Final Intonation Contours

Multimodal imaging in CABP4-related retinopathy

The Cosmic Origin of Fluorine : An Astronomer's View on Fluorine Synthesis

All fluorine atoms in fluoride compounds discussed in this book were synthesized in the stars or in stellar processes well before the solar system was formed some 4.6. billion years ago. The main cosmic production sites are, however, still elusive. This is not only because it is challenging to empirically determine the buildup of fluorine abundance in the universe over time, but also because of th