Alzheimer and vascular brain diseases: Focal and diffuse subforms.

Alois Alzheimer is best known for his description of the pre-senile neurodegenerative disease named after him. However, his previous interest in vascular brain diseases, underlying cognitive and behavioral changes, was very strong. Besides describing the Arteriosclerotic atrophy of the brain and the arteriosclerotic subtype of Senile dementia which he viewed as main forms of vascular brain diseases, he also identified and described a series of conditions he considered subforms. These may be divided, as suggested by the authors of the present paper, into 3 groups: gliosis and sclerosis, subcortical atrophies, and apoplectic. The subforms of the three groups present characteristic neuropathological features and clinical, cognitive and behavioral manifestations. These provide the basis, together with part of the main forms, for the contemporary condition known as Vascular Cognitive Impairment

29Si-NMR-Spektroskopie an Silicatlösungen. - V : Über die 29Si-NMR-Spektren niedermolekularer Kieselsäuren

29Si-NMR-Untersuchungen an 0,5 m Di- und Trikieselsäurelösungen zeigen, daß die Resonanzsignale für die Endgruppen-Si-Atome der beiden Kieselsäuren sehr eng benachbart sind ( = 0,03 ppm). In konzentrierten 1,5 m Lösungen nähern bzw. überlagern sich die Endgruppensignale derart, daß eine eindeutige Zuordnung der Resonanzsignale und die Identifizierung nieder-molekularer Kondensationsprodukte der Monokieselsäure bisher nicht möglich ist

How can a multimodal approach to primate communication help us understand the evolution of communication?

Scientists studying the communication of non-human animals are often aiming to better understand the evolution of human communication, including human language. Some scientists take a phylogenetic perspective, where the goal is to trace the evolutionary history of communicative traits, while others take a functional perspective, where the goal is to understand the selection pressures underpinning specific traits. Both perspectives are necessary to fully understand the evolution of communication, but it is important to understand how the two perspectives differ and what they can and cannot tell us. Here, we suggest that integrating phylogenetic and functional questions can be fruitful in better understanding the evolution of communication. We also suggest that adopting a multimodal approach to communication might help to integrate phylogenetic and functional questions, and provide an interesting avenue for research into language evolution

[(CH3)3Si]14Si7O21 - ein neuer cyclischer Kieselsäuretrimethylsilylester

Durch Trimethylsilylierung des Bariumchloridsilicates 2BaO - 3BaCl2 - 2SiO2 wurde ein bisher unbekannter Kieselsäuretrimethylsilylester hergestellt, der mit Hilfe der Kapillargaschromatographie, Massenspektroskopie29Si-NMR-Spektroskopie und Dünnschichtchromatographie charakterisiert wurde. Aus den Untersuchungen folgt für den Ester die Konstitution eines Cycloheptakieselsäuretrimethylsilylesters (Tetradecakistrimethylsiloxicycloheptasiloxan) der Formel [(CH3)3Si]14Si7O21. Die Verwendung des Esters als Standardsubstanz wird diskutiert

Materiality and human cognition

In this paper, we examine the role of materiality in human cognition. We address issues such as the ways in which brain functions may change in response to interactions with material forms, the attributes of material forms that may cause change in brain functions, and the spans of time required for brain functions to reorganize when interacting with material forms. We then contrast thinking through materiality with thinking about it. We discuss these in terms of their evolutionary significance and history as attested by stone tools and writing, material forms whose interaction endowed our lineage with conceptual thought and meta-awareness of conceptual domains

Brain asymmetries related to language with emphasis on entorhinal cortex and basal forebrain

Anatomical asymmetries of the human brain are important in at least four respects: 1) they can serve as potential indicators of the evolutionary foundations of language, 2) they can be used for comparative analysis of neural specializations for communication in primates, 3) they may provide underlying structural correlates for functional imaging (fMRI, PET) and genetic studies, and finally 4) they can be used for studying disorders which are suspected to result from either disturbed development of cerebral asymmetry or asymmetric damage to the brain. In the first part of this review, we give a general framework of this field through the brief descriptions of the milestone discoveries and major conceptual advances as they emerged throughout the last 150 years. In the second part, we provide a more detailed view on the functional relevance that asymmetries of the entorhinal cortex and basal forebrain may have on the language

The German Federal Court of Audit's observations of and comments on tax administration and tax compliance

Auditing institutions, such as the German Federal Court of Audit (BRH), provide information on public revenue and public spending. The question of how to increase tax compliance has been of frequent interest. Unfortunately, information from German taxpayers? declaration behaviour (beyond the official income statistics and tax statistics) was neither systematically collected, nor otherwise made accessible for systematic research. However, the BRH selectively observes taxpayers? and tax administrators? behaviour and, on the basis of its audit experiences, comments on tax enforcement and tax compliance. Such recommendations are not just increasingly given by the BRH, but also increasingly considered in political decision making processes. Although the findings are not a representative sample of the German taxpayers? behaviour, they make up available information on tax compliance behaviour in Germany and, therefore, are worth discussing in light of modern economic theories of tax compliance. The reported facts are an appropriate foundation of case studies. --supreme auditing institutions,German Federal Court of Audit,tax administration,tax compliance,tax evasion,tax morality,transactional costs

Zur Geologie und Tektonik des Hüggel- und Silberberg-Gebietes bei Osnabrück (West-Niedersachsen) : mit 3 Tabellen

Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, neben einer Gliederung der Zechstein-Serien im Bereich des Hüggels die Genese der allochthonen Schollen (Silberberg-Großheide-Scholie und Heidberg-Jägerberg-Scholle) in seinem südlichen Vorland zu diskutieren. Die Zechstein-Gesteine liegen in dolomitischer Randfazies vor, die eine geilauere Untergliederung z. Zt, nur bedingt zuläßt. Vermutlich sind während des Werra- und Staßfurt-Zyklus Sulfate (A 1 - A 2) ausgefällt worden, die eine mächtige Anhydrit-Gesteinseinschaltung innerhalb der Zechstein-Serien bildeten. Hinweise auf nennenswerte salinare Bildungen im Bereich des Hüggels gibt es nicht. Die bislang für die Genese der allochthonen Schollen im südlichen Hüggel-Vorland erarbeiteten Modelle (NIENHAUS 1953; LATZE 1953; KELLER 1974) können nicht bestätigt werden. Stattdessen wird versucht, die Bildung der Schollen durch Schub- oder Gleitdeckentektonik zu erklären. Es wird angenommen, daß die Silberberg-Großheide-Scholie aus dem Dachbereich des Hüggel- Horstes stammt. Schubdecken-Modell: Die Heidberg-Jägerberg-Scholle und Kreide-Gesteine in Dolinen nördlich des Hüggels sind Reste einer Schubdecke, die von N kommend beim Übergleiten des Hüggel- Horstes dessen Dach (Silberberg-Großheide-Scholle) in das südliche Hüggel-Vorland schob. Gleitdecken-Modell: Während der Hebung des Hüggel-Horstes kam es an übersteilten Hängen zum gravitativen Abgleiten der beiden Schollen in das südliche Hüggel-Vorland