P. Ioannis Aegidii Trullench ... Expositio S. Cruciatae et Lacticinorum in gratiam ecclesiasticorum : omnibus confessariis, etiam degentibus in ditionibus, vbi ipsa non conceditur, perutilis, [et] admodum necessaria.

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R.P. Valentini Mangionij Perusini e Societate Iesu ... De religiosa paupertate non excludente rerum dominium nec ius testandi : opusculum quinque partitum.

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R.P.F. Remigij Scrofae ... Opusculum de inualiditate professionis ante legitimam aetatem profitentium, ad mentem sacrosancti Conc. Tridentini sess. 25. de Regularib. cap. 15. : Vbi difficultates plurimae, quae ab alijs doctoribus ex professo non tractantur, appellationem regularium, professionem conuersorum, nonnullaque alia religiosis necessaria explicantur, & dilucidantur ...

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Decisiones Sacrae Rotae romanae coram R. P. D. Theodulpho Mertel ejusdem Sacrae Rotae auditore nunc ab internis status negociis : quas additis nondum editis, argumentis praepositis atque summariis, nec non omnium conslusionum indice generali in finem adjecto, /

Covers period Jan. 15, 1849-March 7, 1853.

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date. Embodying a history of all the political parties with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, the text of all existing political laws... Also a complete federal blue book...

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Adm r.p.f. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica nec non ascetica, polemica, rubricistica, historica de principalioribus : & fere omnibus, quœ in dies occurrunt, nec penes omnes facile, ac prompte reperiri possunt, ex utroque jure, summorum pontificum constitutionibus ... /

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P. Illuminati Moroni ... Centum responsa centum quaesitis ex iis quae illi in dies deferebantur soluenda : in quibus non contemnendae difficultates de censibus ... nec non de statu regularium reclamatione super inualiditate professionis ...

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P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera omnia : in tres tomos divisa : cum integris Nicolai Heinsii, D.F., lectissimisque variorum notis : quibus non pauca, ad suos quæque antiquitatis fontes diligenti comparatione reducta, accesserunt, studio Borchardi Cnippingii.

Includes indexes.

The complete non-sense book /

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Guntheri Christophori Schelhammeri med. doct. & ejusdem facultatis in Academia Julia professor. p. nec non naturæ curiosor. collegæ De auditu liber unus : quo plerorumque omnium doctorum sententiæ examinantur, & auditis ratio nova methodo, ex ipsus naturæ legibus, explicatur.

Last group of four pages is errata.

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date. : Embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, the text of all existing political laws ... Also a complete federal blue book ... /

Various pagings.

Entanglement induced by spontaneous emission in spatially extended two-atom systems

The role of the collective antisymmetric state in entanglement creation by spontaneous emission in a system of two non-overlapping two-level atoms has been investigated. Populations of the collective atomic states and the Wootters entanglement measure (concurrence) for two sets of initial atomic conditions are calculated and illustrated graphically. Calculations include the dipole-dipole interaction and a spatial separation between the atoms that the antisymmetric state of the system is included throughout even for small interatomic separations. It is shown that spontaneous emission can lead to a transient entanglement between the atoms even if the atoms were prepared initially in an unentangled state. It is found that the ability of spontaneous emission to create transient entanglement relies on the absence of population in the collective symmetric state of the system. For the initial state of only one atom excited, entanglement builds up rapidly in time and reaches a maximum for parameter values corresponding roughly to zero population in the symmetric state. On the other hand, for the initial condition of both atoms excited, the atoms remain unentangled until the symmetric state is depopulated. A simple physical interpretation of these results is given in terms of the diagonal states of the density matrix of the system. We also study entanglement creation in a system of two non-identical atoms of different transition frequencies. It is found that the entanglement between the atoms can be enhanced compared to that for identical atoms, and can decay with two different time scales resulting from the coherent transfer of the population from the symmetric to the antisymmetric state. In addition, it was found that a decaying initial entanglement between the atoms can display a revival behaviour.

Durable complete clinical responses in a phase I/II trial using an autologous melanoma cell/dendritic cell vaccine

Advanced metastatic melanoma is incurable by standard treatments, but occasionally responds to immunotherapy. Recent trials using dendritic cells (DC) as a cellular adjuvant have concentrated on defined peptides as the source of antigens, and rely on foreign proteins as a source of help to generate a cell-mediated immune response. This approach limits patient accrual, because currently defined, non-mutated epitopes are restricted by a small number of human leucocyte antigens. It also fails to take advantage of mutated epitopes peculiar to the patient's own tumour, and of CD4(+) T lymphocytes as potential effectors of anti-tumour immunity. We therefore sought to determine whether a fully autologous DC vaccine is feasible, and of therapeutic benefit. Patients with American Joint Cancer Committee stage IV melanoma were treated with a fully autologous immunotherapy consisting of monocyte-derived DC, matured after culture with irradiated tumour cells. Of 19 patients enrolled into the trial, sufficient tumour was available to make treatments for 17. Of these, 12 received a complete priming phase of six cycles of either 0.9X10(6) or 5X10(6) DC/intradermal injection, at 2-weekly intervals. Where possible, treatment continued with the lower dose at 6-weekly intervals. The remaining five patients could not complete priming, due to progressive disease. Three of the 12 patients who completed priming have durable complete responses (average duration 3 5 months +), three had partial responses, and the remaining six had progressive disease (WHO criteria). Disease regression was not correlated with dose or with the development of delayed type hypersensitivity responses to intradermal challenge with irradiated, autologous tumour. However, plasma S-100B levels prior to the commencement of treatment correlated with objective clinical response (P = 0.05) and survival (log rank P < 0.001). The treatment had minimal side-effects and was well tolerated by all patients. Mature, monocyte-derived DC preparations exposed to appropriate tumour antigen sources can be reliably produced for patients with advanced metastatic melanoma, and in a subset of those patients with lower volume disease their repeated administration results in durable complete responses.

Fractional Powers of Almost Non-Negative Operators

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 47A60, 47D06.

Modelling the cost-effectiveness of adopting risk stratified approaches to extended screening intervals in the national diabetic retinopathy screening programme in Scotland

Funding sources: The study was funded by a research grant from the Chief Scientist’s Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates (CZH/4/971). The funder played no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, manuscript preparation and/or publication decisions. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the funder.