S. Lang

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1967 - 2009

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114

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Recent results from HADES on electron pair production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions (2009)

Agakishiev, G., Balanda, A., Belver, D., Belyaev, A. V., Blanco, A., ...

Systematic investigations of dilepton production are performed at the SIS accelerator of GSI with the HADES spectrometer. The goal of this program is a detailed understanding of di-electron emission...

Origin of the low-mass electron pair excess in light nucleus-nucleus collisions (2009)

Balanda, A., Belver, D., Belyaev, A. V., Blanco, A., Böhmer, M., ...

We report measurements of electron pair production in elementary p+p and d+p reactions at 1.25 GeV/u with the HADES spectrometer. For the first time, the electron pairs were reconstructed for n+p...

Deep sub-threshold $\Xi^-$ production in Ar+KCl reactions at 1.76A GeV (2009)

Agakishiev, G., Balanda, A., Bassini, R., Belver, D., Belyaev, A. V., Blanco, A., ...

We report first results on a deep sub-threshold production of the doubly strange hyperon $\Xi^-$ in a heavy-ion reaction. At a beam energy of 1.76A GeV the reaction Ar+KCl was studied with the High...

Inclusive Dielectron Production in Ar+KCl Collisions at 1.76 AGeV studied with HADES (2009)

Agakishiev, G., Balanda, A., Bellia, G., Belver, D., Belyaev, A., ...

Results of the HADES measurement of inclusive dielectron production in Ar+KCl collisions at a kinetic beam energy of 1.76 AGeV are presented. For the first time, high mass resolution spectroscopy was...

Charged pion production in C+C and Ar+KCl collisions measured with HADES (2009)

Agakishiev, G., Balanda, A., Bellia, G., Belver, D., Belyaev, A., ...

Results of a study of charged pion production in 12C+12C collisions at incident beam energies of 1A GeV and 2A GeV, and 40Ar+natKCl at 1.76AGeV, using the spectrometer HADES at GSI, are presented. We...

Future perspectives at SIS-100 with HADES-at-FAIR (2009)

Agakishiev, G., Balanda, A., Bellia, G., Belver, D., Belyaev, A., ...

Currently, the HADES spectrometer undergoes un upgrade program to be prepared for measurements at the upcoming SIS-100 synchrotron at FAIR. We describe the current status of the HADES di-electron...

The High-Acceptance Dielectron Spectrometer HADES (2009)

Balanda, A., Bannier, B., Bassini, R., Belver, D., Belyaev, A. V., ...

HADES is a versatile magnetic spectrometer aimed at studying dielectron production in pion, proton and heavy-ion induced collisions. Its main features include a ring imaging gas Cherenkov detector...

Phi decay: a relevant source for K- production at SIS energies? (2009)

Balanda, A., Bannier, B., Bassini, R., Belver, D., Belyaev, A. V., ...

We present phase space distributions and multiplicities of K+, K- and phi mesons produced in Ar+KCl reactions at a kinetic beam energy of 1.756 AGeV and measured with the HADES spectrometer. The...

Abstract (2009)

K. Keahey, S. Lang, B. Liu, V. Welch, S. Meder

In this paper we describe our work on enabling fine-grain authorization for resource usage and management. We address the need of Virtual Organizations (VOs) to enforce their own polices in addition...

Spatial vulnerability units – expert-based spatial modelling of socio-economic vulnerability in the Salzach catchment, Austria (2009)

S. Kienberger, S. Lang, P. Zeil

The assessment of vulnerability has moved to centre-stage of the debate between different scientific disciplines related to climate change and disaster risk management. Composed by a combination of...

Time-dependent association of total serum cholesterol and cancer incidence in a cohort of 172 210 men and women: a prospective 19-year follow-up study (2009)

Strasak, A. M., Pfeiffer, R. M., Brant, L. J., Rapp, K., Hilbe, W., Oberaigner, W., ...

Background: The relationship between serum cholesterol and cancer incidence remains controversial. Patients and methods: We investigated the association of total serum cholesterol (TSC) with...

The regulatory BCL2 promoter polymorphism (-938C>A) is associated with relapse and survival of patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (2009)

Lehnerdt, G. F., Franz, P., Bankfalvi, A., Grehl, S., Kelava, A., Nückel, H., ...

Background: Expression of the antiapoptotic and antiproliferative protein B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) has been repeatedly shown to be associated with better locoregional control and patients’...

ABSTRACTS (2009)

Abdelwahab, A., Gardner, M., Parkash, R., Basta, M., Sapp, J., Veltmann, C., ...

Introduction: Scar-related ventricular tachycardia (VT) is often unmappable. Data regarding the outcomes of ablation for mappable vs unmappable VT are lacking. Methods: Catheter ablation of...

Abstract (2008)

K. Keahey, S. Lang, B. Liu, V. Welch, S. Meder

In this paper we describe our work on enabling fine-grain authorization for resource usage and management. We address the need of Virtual Organizations (VOs) to enforce their own polices in addition...

Abstract (2008)

K. Keahey, S. Lang, B. Liu, V. Welch, S. Meder

In this paper we describe our work on enabling fine-grain authorization for resource usage and management. We address the need of Virtual Organizations (VOs) to enforce their own polices in addition...

Remote sensing of cloud sides of deep convection: towards a three-dimensional retrieval of cloud particle size profiles (2008)

Zinner, T., Marshak, A., Lang, S., Martins, J. V., Mayer, B.

The cloud scanner sensor is a central part of a recently proposed satellite remote sensing concept ? the three-dimensional (3-D) cloud and aerosol interaction mission (CLAIM-3D) combining...

Remote sensing of cloud sides of deep convection: towards a three-dimensional retrieval of cloud particle size profiles (2008)

Zinner, T., Marshak, A., Lang, S., Martins, J. V., Mayer, B.

The cloud scanner sensor is a central part of a recently proposed satellite remote sensing concept ? the three-dimensional (3-D) cloud and aerosol interaction mission (CLAIM-3D) combining...

Remote sensing of cloud sides of deep convection: towards a three-dimensional retrieval of cloud particle size profiles (2008)

Zinner, T., Marshak, A., Lang, S., Martins, J.V., Mayer, B.

The cloud scanner sensor is a central part of a recently proposed satellite remote sensing concept – the three-dimensional (3-D) cloud and aerosol interaction mission (CLAIM-3D) combining...

Remote sensing of cloud sides of deep convection: towards a three-dimensional retrieval of cloud particle size profiles (2008)

T. Zinner, A. Marshak, S. Lang, J. V. Martins, B. Mayer

The cloud scanner sensor is a central part of a recently proposed satellite remote sensing concept – the three-dimensional (3-D) cloud and aerosol interaction mission (CLAIM-3D) combining...

Remote sensing of cloud sides of deep convection: towards a three-dimensional retrieval of cloud particle size profiles (2008)

T. Zinner, A. Marshak, S. Lang, J. V. Martins, B. Mayer

The cloud scanner sensor is a central part of a recently proposed satellite remote sensing concept – the three-dimensional (3-D) cloud and aerosol interaction mission (CLAIM-3D) combining...

3D scene reconstruction from IR image sequences for image-based navigation update and target detection of an autonomous airborne system (2008)

Lang, S., Jaeger, K.

The successful mission of an autonomous airborne system like an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strongly depends on an accurate target approach as well as the real time acquisition of detailed...

3D scene reconstruction from IR image sequences for image-based navigation update and target detection of an autonomous airborne system (2008)

Lang, S., Jaeger, K.

The successful mission of an autonomous airborne system like an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strongly depends on an accurate target approach as well as the real time acquisition of detailed...

3D scene reconstruction from IR image sequences for image-based navigation update and target detection of an autonomous airborne system (2008)

Lang, S., Jaeger, K.

The successful mission of an autonomous airborne system like an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strongly depends on an accurate target approach as well as the real time acquisition of detailed...

Study of dielectron production in C+C collisions at 1 AGeV (2007)

Agakishiev, HADES Collaboration: G., Agodi, C., Pol, H. Alvarez, Balanda, A., Bassini, R., Bellia, G., ...

The emission of e+e- pairs from C+C collisions at an incident energy of 1 GeV per nucleon has been investigated. The measured production probabilities, spanning from the pi0-Dalitz to the rho/omega!...

Predictive Protocol For Congestion Control Of Continuous Media Traffic Over Atm Networks (2007)

Master's Thesis Proposal, Sameer Dubey, Dr. S. Lang

Real-time applications which require the transmission of data units at regular intervals are called. Continuous Media (CM) clients. All traffic and performance parameters of continuous media are...

Dilepton production in pp and CC collisions with HADES (2007)

Fröhlich, I., Agakishiev, G., Agodi, C., Balanda, A., Bellia, G., Belver, D., ...

Dilepton production has been measured with HADES, the "High Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer". In pp collisions at 2.2GeV kinetic beam energy, exclusive eta production and the Dalitz decay eta ->...

Dilepton production in pp and CC collisions with HADES (2007)

Fröhlich, I., Agakishiev, G., Agodi, C., Balanda, A., Bellia, G., Belver, D., ...

5 pages, 4 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 13.25.Jx, 13.40.Hq, 14.40.Aq, 25.40.Ve.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000245667300102.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0610048

Production of K+ and of K- Mesons in Heavy-Ion Collisions from 0.6 to 2.0 AGeV Incident Energy (2007)

Foerster, A., Uhlig, F., Boettcher, I., Brill, D., Debowski, M., Dohrmann, F., ...

This paper summarizes the yields and the emission patterns of K+ and of K- mesons measured in inclusive C+C, Ni+Ni and Au+Au collisions at incident energies from 0.6 AGeV to 2.0 AGeV using the Kaon...

Visualization Summit 2007: Ten research goals for 2010 (2007)

Burkhard, R.A., Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Dykes, J., Koutamanis, A., Kienreich, W., ...

Researchers and practitioners defined and assessed nine original and important research goals in the context of Visualization Science, and proposed methods for achieving these goals by 2010. The...

[Abstract]   [Full Text]   [PDF] Rebuttal from Dr. Bates (2007)

C. William Thorpe, D. A. Kaminsky, C. G. Irvin, ...

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A spatial model for the needle losses of pine-trees in the forests of Baden-Wurttemberg: an application of Bayesian structured additive regression (2007)

Augustin, N. H., Lang, S., Musio, M., Von Wilpert, K.

The data that are analysed are from a monitoring survey which was carried out in 1994 in the forests of Baden-Wurttemberg, a federal state in the south-western region of Germany. The survey is part...

The role of conceptual geological models in more accurately estimating inplace hydrocarbon: An example from the Cooper Basin, South Australia (2006)

Al-Khalifa, M. A., Payenberg, Tobias Hans Diedrich, Lang, S.

The generating and usage of conceptual geological models become an integral part of reservoir characterisation studies, because they represent geologist understanding of the reservoir. With...

The role of conceptual geological models in more accurately estimating inplace hydrocarbon: An example from the Cooper Basin, South Australia (2006)

Al-Khalifa, M. A., Payenberg, Tobias Hans Diedrich, Lang, S.

The generating and usage of conceptual geological models become an integral part of reservoir characterisation studies, because they represent geologist understanding of the reservoir. With...

The role of conceptual geological models in more accurately estimating inplace hydrocarbon: An example from the Cooper Basin, South Australia (2006)

Al-Khalifa, M. A., Payenberg, Tobias Hans Diedrich, Lang, S.

The generating and usage of conceptual geological models become an integral part of reservoir characterisation studies, because they represent geologist understanding of the reservoir. With...

Simultaneous probability statements for Bayesian P-splines (2005)

Brezger, Andreas, Lang, S.

P-splines are a popular approach for fitting nonlinear effects of continuous covariates in semiparametric regression models. Recently, a Bayesian version for P-splines has been developed on the basis...

Review of the results of the KaoS Collaboration (2004)

Foerster, A., Boettcher, I., Dohrmann, F., Foerster, A., Grosse, E., Koczon, P., ...

The production of K+ and of K- mesons in heavy-ion collisions at beam energies of 1 to 2 AGeV has systematically been investigated with the Kaon Spectrometer KaoS. The ratio of the K+ production...

the bielefeld robot companion (2004)

A. Haasch, S. Hohenner, S. Huwel, M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, I. Toptsis, ...

IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted.However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or...

the bielefeld robot companion (2004)

A. Haasch, S. Hohenner, S. Hüwel, M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, I. Toptsis, ...

In the recent past, service robots that are able to interact with humans in a natural way have become increasingly popular. A special kind of service robots that are designed for personal use at home...

Audiovisual Person Tracking with a Mobile Robot (2004)

J. Fritsch, M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, G. A. Fink, G. Sagerer

Mobile service robots are recently gaining increased attention from industry as they are envisaged as a future market. Such robots need natural interaction capabilities to allow unexperienced users...

Research issues for designing robot companions: BIRON as a case study (2004)

B. Wrede, A. Haasch, N. Hofemann, S. Hohenner, S. Hüwel, M. Kleinehagenbrock, ...

Abstract — Current research in robotics is driven by the goal to achieve a high user acceptance of service robots for private households. This implies that robots have to increase their social...

Audiovisual Person Tracking with a Mobile Robot (2004)

J. Fritsch, M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, G. A. Fink, G. Sagerer

Mobile service robots are recently gaining increased attention from industry as they are envisaged as a future market. Such robots need natural interaction capabilities to allow unexperienced users...

Fine-Grained Authorization for Job Execution in the Grid: Design and Implementation (2003)

Keahey, K., Welch, V., Lang, S., Liu, B., Meder, S.

In this paper we describe our work on enabling fine-grained authorization for resource usage and management. We address the need of virtual organizations to enforce their own polices in addition to...

Amination of arenes through electron-deficient reaction cascades of aryl epoxyazides (2003)

Lang, S., Kennedy, A.R., Murphy, J.A., Payne, A.H.

Aryl epoxyazides undergo efficient electron-deficient reaction cascades mediated by Lewis acids, leading to regiospecific amination of the aromatic ring.

Amination of arenes through electron-deficient reaction cascades of aryl epoxyazides (2003)

Lang, S., Kennedy, A.R., Murphy, J.A., Payne, A.H.

Aryl epoxyazides undergo efficient electron-deficient reaction cascades mediated by Lewis acids, leading to regiospecific amination of the aromatic ring.

Fine-grained authorization for job and resource management using akenti and the globus toolkit(R) (2003)

Thompson, Mary R., Essiari, Abdelilah, Keahey, Kate, Welch, Von, Lang, S., Liu, Bo

As the Grid paradigm is adopted as a standard way of sharing remote resources across organizational domains, the need for fine-grained access control to these resources increases. This paper presents...

blue-c: A spatially immersive display and 3D video portal for telepresence (2003)

Wurmlin, S, Naef, M, Lamboray, E, Spagno, C, Kunz, A, ...

We present blue-c, a new immersive projection and 3D video acquisition environment for virtual design and collaboration. It combines simultaneous acquisition of multiple live video streams with...

Fine-Grained Authorization for Job and Resource Management Using Akenti and the Globus Toolkit (2003)

Thompson, M., Essiari, A., Keahey, K., Welch, V., Lang, S., Liu, B.

As the Grid paradigm is adopted as a standard way of sharing remote resources across organizational domains, the need for fine-grained access control to these resources increases. This paper presents...

Penalized additive regression for space-time data: a Bayesian perspective (2003)

Fahrmeir, Ludwig, Kneib, Thomas, Lang, S.

We propose extensions of penalized spline generalized additive models for analysing space-time regression data and study them from a Bayesian perspective. Non-linear effects of continuous covariates...

Women, Work, and Motherhood: Changing Employment Penalties for Motherhood in West Germany after 1945 -- A Comparative Analysis of Cohorts Born in 1934-1971 (2003)

Bender, S., Kohlmann, A., Lang, S.

This paper deals with the effects of entry into motherhood on women's employment dynamics. Our analysis is based on the complete lifetime working- and income histories of a 1% sample of all persons...

Locally Adaptive Function Estimation for Binary Regression Models (2003)

Jerak, A., Lang, S.

In this paper we present a nonparametric Bayesian approach for fitting unsmooth or highly oscillating functions in regression models with binary responses. The approach extends previous work by Lang...

Generalized structured additive regression based on Bayesian P-splines (2003)

Brezger, Andreas, Lang, S.

Generalized additive models (GAM) for modelling nonlinear effects of continuous covariates are now well established tools for the applied statistician. In this paper we develop Bayesian GAM's and...

BayesX: Analysing Bayesian structured additive regression models (2003)

Brezger, Andreas, Kneib, Thomas, Lang, S.

There has been much recent interest in Bayesian inference for generalized additive and related models. The increasing popularity of Bayesian methods for these and other model classes is mainly caused...

Fine-grained authorization for job and resource management using akenti and the globus toolkit (2003)

M. R. Thompson, A. Essiari, K. Keahey, S. Lang, B. Liu

As the Grid paradigm is adopted as a standard way of sharing remote resources across organizational domains, the need for finegrained access control to these resources increases. This paper presents...

Fine-grained authorization for job and resource management using akenti and the globus toolkit (2003)

M. R. Thompson, A. Essiari, K. Keahey, S. Lang, B. Liu

As the Grid paradigm is adopted as a standard way of sharing remote resources across organizational domains, the need for finegrained access control to these resources increases. This paper presents...

Fine-grained authorization for job and resource management using akenti and the globus toolkit (2003)

M. R. Thompson, A. Essiari, K. Keahey, S. Lang, B. Liu

As the Grid paradigm is adopted as a standard way of sharing remote resources across organizational domains, the need for fine-grained access control to these resources increases. This paper presents...

Mupirocin and Staphylococcus aureus: a recent paradigm of emerging antibiotic resistance (2003)

Upton, A., Lang, S., Heffernan, H.

Objectives: To describe trends in mupirocin resistance among Staphylococcus aureus in New Zealand (NZ), following the availability of mupirocin in 1986. Patients and methods: Data from a variety of...

Mupirocin and Staphylococcus aureus: a recent paradigm of emerging antibiotic resistance (2003)

Upton, A., Lang, S., Heffernan, H.

Objectives: To describe trends in mupirocin resistance among Staphylococcus aureus in New Zealand (NZ), following the availability of mupirocin in 1986. Patients and methods: Data from a variety of...

Mupirocin and Staphylococcus aureus: a recent paradigm of emerging antibiotic resistance (2003)

Upton, A., Lang, S., Heffernan, H.

Objectives: To describe trends in mupirocin resistance among Staphylococcus aureus in New Zealand (NZ), following the availability of mupirocin in 1986. Patients and methods: Data from a variety of...

Improving adaptive skin color segmentation by incorporating results from face detection (2002)

J. Fritsch, S. Lang, M. Kleinehagenbrock, G. A. Fink, G. Sagerer

The visual tracking of human faces is a basic functionality needed for human-machine interfaces. This paper describes an approach that explores the combined use of adaptive skin color segmentation...

Person tracking with a mobile robot based on multi-modal anchoring (2002)

M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, J. Fritsch, F. Lömker, G. A. Fink, G. Sagerer

The ability to robustly track a person is an important prerequisite for human-robot-interaction. This paper presents a hybrid approach for integrating vision and laser range data to track a human....

Detection of communication partners from a mobile robot (2002)

S. Lang, M. Kleinehagenbrock, J. Fritsch, G. A. Fink, G. Sagerer

Abstract. An important prerequisite for the natural interaction of humans with a mobile robot is the robot’s capability to detect potential communication partners. In this paper we present an...

Or for Creating New Collective Works for Resale Or Redistribution to Servers Or Lists, Or to Reuse Any Copyrighted Component of This Work in Other Works, (2002)

Must Be Obtained, J. Fritsch, S. Lang, M. Kleinehagenbrock, G. A. Fink, G. Sagerer

The visual tracking of human faces is a basic functionality needed for human-machine interfaces. This paper describes an approach that explores the combined use of adaptive skin color segmentation...

Person Tracking with a Mobile Robot Based on Multi-Modal Anchoring (2002)

M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, J. Fritsch, F. Lomker, G. A. Fink, G. Sagerer

The ability to robustly track a person is an important prerequisite for human-robot-interaction. This paper presents a hybrid approach for integrating vision and laser range data to track a human....

Detection of Communication Partners from a Mobile Robot (2002)

S. Lang, M. Kleinehagenbrock, J. Fritsch, G. A. Fink, G. Sagerer

An important prerequisite for the natural interaction of humans with a mobile robot is the robot's capability to detect potential communication partners.

Bayesian generalized additive mixed models. A simulation study (2001)

Lang, S., Fahrmeir, Ludwig

Generalized additive mixed models extend the common parametric predictor of generalized linear models by adding unknown smooth functions of different types of covariates as well as random effects....

Bayesian P-Splines (2001)

Lang, S., Brezger, Andreas

P-splines are an attractive approach for modelling nonlinear smooth effects of covariates within the generalized additive and varying coefficient models framework. In this paper we propose a Bayesian...

Bayesian space-time analysis of health insurance data (2001)

Lang, S., Kragler, P., Haybach, G., Fahrmeir, Ludwig

Generalized linear models (GLMs) and semiparametric extensions provide a flexible framework for analyzing the claims process in non-life insurance. Currently, most applications are still based on...

Semiparametric Analysis of the Socio-Demographic and Spatial Determinants of Undernutrition in Two African Countries (2001)

Kandala, N. B., Lang, S., Klasen, S., Fahrmeir, Ludwig

We estimate semiparametric regression models of chronic undernutrition (stunting) using the 1992 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from Tanzania and Zambia. We focus particularly on the influence...

Function estimation with locally adaptive dynamic models (2001)

Lang, S., Fronk, Eva-Maria, Fahrmeir, Ludwig

We present a nonparametric Bayesian method for fitting unsmooth and highly oscillating functions, which is based on a locally adaptive hierarchical extension of standard dynamic or state space...

BayesX - Software for Bayesian Inference based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation techniques (2000)

Lang, S., Brezger, Andreas

BayesX is a Software tool for Bayesian inference based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) inference techniques. The main feature of BayesX so far, is a very powerful regression tool for Bayesian...

Bayesian Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Multicategorical Time-Space Data (2000)

Fahrmeir, Ludwig, Lang, S.

We present a unified semiparametric Bayesian approach based on Markov random field priors for analyzing the dependence of multicategorical response variables on time, space and further covariates....

Semiparametric Bayesian Time-Space Analysis of Unemployment Duration (2000)

Fahrmeir, Ludwig, Lang, S., Wolff, J., Bender, S.

In this paper, we analyze unemployment duration in Germany with official data from the German Federal Employment Office for the years 1980-1995. Conventional hazard rate models for leaving...

Bayesian Inference for Generalized Additive Mixed Models Based on Markov Random Field Priors (1999)

Fahrmeir, Ludwig, Lang, S.

Most regression problems in practice require flexible semiparametric forms of the predictor for modelling the dependence of responses on covariates. Moreover, it is often necessary to add random...

Bayesian Inference for Generalized Additive Regression based on Dynamic Models (1998)

Fahrmeir, Ludwig, Lang, S.

We present a general approach for Bayesian inference via Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation in generalized additive, semiparametric and mixed models. It is particularly appropriate for...

UG - A flexible software toolbox for solving partial differential equations (1997)

P. Bastian, K. Birken, K. Johannsen, S. Lang, N. Neuss, H. Rentz-reichert, ...

Over the past two decades, some very efficient techniques for the numerical solution of partial differential equations have been developed. We are especially interested in adaptive local grid...

Ammonium in the PUREX process. (1989)

Horn, G., Lang, S., Scherwitzl, J., Ertel, D.

2nd Karlsruhe Internat.Conf.on Analytical Chemistry in Nuclear Technology, Karlsruhe, June 5-9, 1989

Observer variability in histopathological reporting of non-small cell lung carcinoma on bronchial biopsy specimens.

Burnett, R A, Howatson, S R, Lang, S, Lee, F D, Lessells, A M, McLaren, K M, ...

AIMS: To evaluate the ability of histopathologists to sub-classify non-small cell lung carcinomas on bronchial biopsy material using the current World Health Organisation (WHO) classification....

Immunomodulatory therapy with thymopentin and indomethacin. Successful restoration of interleukin-2 synthesis in patients undergoing major surgery.

Faist, E, Markewitz, A, Fuchs, D, Lang, S, Zarius, S, Schildberg, F W, ...

Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2)-mediated monocyte (M phi) suppressor activity and inadequate T-helper cell function represent the mechanistic keystones of trauma-induced impairment of cell-mediated immunity...

Biokinetics of nuclear fuel compounds and biological effects of nonuniform radiation.

Lang, S, Servomaa, K, Kosma, V M, Rytömaa, T

Environmental releases of insoluble nuclear fuel compounds may occur at nuclear power plants during normal operation, after nuclear power plant accidents, and as a consequence of nuclear weapons...

Molecular screening of patients with long standing extensive ulcerative colitis: detection of p53 and Ki-ras mutations by single strand conformation polymorphism analysis and differential hybridisation in colonic lavage fluid

Lang, S, Stratakis, D, Heinzlmann, M, Heldwein, W, Wiebecke, B, Loeschke, K

BACKGROUND—In patients with long standing ulcerative colitis at risk of developing malignancy, mutations of the p53 and Ki-ras gene were investigated in lavage solution obtained at surveillance...

The expression of bone morphogenetic proteins in osteosarcoma and its relevance as a prognostic parameter

Sulzbacher, I, Birner, P, Trieb, K, Pichlbauer, E, Lang, S

Aims: The expression of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) was analysed in 47 osteosarcomas to determine differences in the expression of BMP subtypes and to correlate expression with response to...

Changes within the "normal" cerebral white matter of multiple sclerosis patients during acute attacks and during high-dose cortisone therapy assessed by means of quantitative MRI.

Brainin, M, Neuhold, A, Reisner, T, Maida, E, Lang, S, Deecke, L

Changes in the apparently unaffected cerebral white matter of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients were studied during acute attacks as well as during high-dose prednisolone therapy. Serial MR scans of...

Indomethacin responsive hypercalcaemia associated with a renal sarcoma.

Gibbs, J, Dillon, M J, Lang, S, Meghji, S, Pritchard, J

An infant presented with a non-metastatic renal spindle cell sarcoma and hypercalcaemia, which resolved after treatment with indomethacin. There was in vivo and in vitro evidence that hypercalcaemia...

Giant thymic carcinoid.

John, L. C., Hornick, P., Lang, S., Wallis, J., Edmondson, S. J.

Thymic carcinoid is a rare tumour. It may present with ectopic endocrine secretion or with symptoms of compression as a result of its size. A case is reported which presented with symptoms of...

Outcome of patients with acute, necrotizing pancreatitis requiring drainage-does drainage size matter?

Bruennler, T, Langgartner, J, Lang, S, Wrede, CE, Klebl, F, Zierhut, S, ...

AIM: To assess the outcome of patients with acute necrotizing pancreatitis treated by percutaneous drainage with special focus on the influence of drainage size and number.