A book that comprehensively summarizes the knowledge on albeit uncommon, but serious aortic diseases. It also includes a chapter on aneurysm etiology that presents an overview of all etiological groups, allowing the reader to become versed in the topic, while pointing out the less known aneurysm causes.

In 1992, the Comite International d Histoire de l Art (CIHA) held its 28th Congress in re-unified Berlin under the theme Kunstlerischer Austausch Artistic Exchange. The subject fed a strain of idealism and optimism relating the history of art to the life of our times. Change was palpable to all the participants. A wall that had seemed everlasting had fallen, a cold war that had lasted a lifetime was now history. The shifting borders and a revised sense of periodization inspired new views of the past as well as the present, of art as well as nationhood and society. One generation later,...

Im Rahmen der XI. Lubys Juristentage wurde eine internationale wissenschaftliche Konferenz zum Thema -Rechtsschutz des schwacheren Subjekts im Privatrecht- von der Stefan-Luby-Stiftung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultat der Universitat Trnava vom 19. bis 20. September 2013 im Kongresszentrum der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften im Schloss Smolenice veranstaltet. Die internationale Konferenz geht von einer Pramisse aus, dass das Privatrecht aus der rechtsphilosophischen Hinsicht eine soziale Dimension beinhaltet. An der Konferenz haben sowohl Vertreter der...

This book provides a user-friendly introduction to the process of linking local language examinations to the common reference levels of language proficiency. It encourages local examination providers to assure quality in high-stakes testing, presenting samples and advice on how to improve the effectiveness of local examinations.