With the surprising discovery of superconductivity at temperatures above 100 K, this field was not only brought into the public eye, but also stimulated research in universities, scientific institutions and industry, thus continuing the fascinating development which began with the discovery of the Josephson effect in the sixties. Cryoelectronics has become a special branch of cryophysics and cryotechnics and today plays a prominent role whenever high resolution and precision measurements are required. Motivated by this development, seven years ago scientists working in cryoelectronics in the Federal Republic of Germany felt the necessity for regular meetings allowing a free exchange of ideas and results achieved. Seminars under the title of "Kryoelektronische Bauelemente" were held for the first time at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig in 1982 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Walther MeiBner, a pioneer in superconductivity. Since then, meetings have been held every year at different venues in Germany. It is now felt that the status of this field necessitates a review of the results of the past, a description of the current state of the art, and a discussion of future perspectives. This book, entitled SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM ELECTRONICS is a collection of invited lectures and contributions which will inform the reader on the most interesting problems involving fundamentals, sensitive detectors and precision metrology being studied by different groups.

Dieses Buch informiert }ber die Anwendung von Tumormarkern, Immunhistochemieund Immunszintigraphie bei gyn{kologischen Tumoren. Dabei werden die einzelnen Verfahren kritisch gewertet und Empfehlungen f}r die praktische Karzinomnachsorge gegeben. Der Leser erh{lt so eine Entscheidungshilfe, welche Parameter bei welchen Tumoren sinnvoll eingesetzt werden.

Die anasthesiologische Betreuung alterer und sehr alter Patienten im Rahmen von Elektiv- oder Notfalloperationen stellt den Anasthesisten vor eine Fulle von ungelosten Fragen und Problemen. Die Frage etwa, ob die naturlichen biologischen Veranderungen im hoheren Lebensalter grundsatzlich das Risiko von Anasthesie und Operation erhohen oder ob die Begleiterkrankungen bestimmend sind. Werden die funktionellen Storungen durch eine Anasthesie und die damit verbundenen notwendigen Massnahmen, wie etwa eine Beatmung, beeinflusst oder zusatzlich gestort? Haben alte Patienten eine andere Pharmakokinetik fur die von dem Anasthesisten verwendeten Medikamente als jungere? Ist die zerebrale Funktion im Alter durch Anasthesie mehr und nachhaltiger gestort? Benotigen altere Patienten nach einer Operation eine intensivere postoperative Nachsorge? Antwort auf diese Fragen geben erfahrene Autoren in den Beitragen des Buches. Die kompetente Darstellung der anasthesiologischen Besonderheiten in der Geriatrie macht das Buch zu einem wichtigen Beitrag fur eine weitere Verbesserung der perioperativen Betreuung alter Patienten.

This research effort analyzes the effect of aerodynamic surfaces versus thrust maneuvers on a reentry vehicle. At high altitudes the effect of aerodynamic surfaces on the reentry vehicle is small due to low atmospheric density; however as the vehicle reaches lower altitudes a lift maneuver is very successful in deflecting the vehicle and creating a large impact footprint. When a continuous thrust maneuver is input in the place of a lift maneuver the results are very similar at the highest maneuver altitudes, although the impact footprint shrinks rapidly as the maneuver altitude decreases. Additionally, when the thrust maneuver is along or opposite the velocity vector of the vehicle it significantly alters the time of flight, especially when performed at higher altitudes. In order to perform this analysis, a FORTRAN program using the equations of motion for a reentry vehicle was modified in order to accommodate the lift and thrust maneuvers.

America has a love-hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy of individualist ethics in four major Americanthinkers-Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, John Dewey, and Ralph Ellison.
These writers' shared commitments to pluralism (metaphysical and cultural), experimentalism, and a melioristic stance toward value and reform led them to describe the self as inherently relational. Accordingly, they articulate models of selfhood that are socially engaged and ethically responsible, and they argue that a reconceived-or, in Dewey's term, reconstructed-individualism is not merely compatible with but necessary to democratic community. Conceiving selfhood and community as interrelated processes, they call for an ongoing reform of social conditions so as to educate and liberate individuality, and, conversely, they affirm the essential role individuality plays in vitalizing communal efforts at reform.

Michael von Albrecht's "A History of Roman Literature," originally published in German, can rightly be seen as the long awaited counterpart to Albin Lesky's "Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur," In what will probably be the last survey made by a single scholar the whole of Latin literature from Livius Andronicus up to Boethius comes to the fore. 'Literature' is taken here in its broad, antique sense, and therefore also includes e.g. rhetoric, philosophy and history. Special attention has been given to the influence of Latin literature on subsequent centuries down to our own days. Extensive indices give access to this monument of learning. The introductions in Von Albrecht's texts, together with the large bibliographies make further study both more fruitful and easy.