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AUTHOR
S Schwarz
Acute Cerebrovascular Disease in the Young
Background and Purpose— Strokes have especially devastating implications if they occur early in life; however, only limited information exists on the characteristics of acute cerebrovascular disease in young adults. Although risk factors and manifestation of atherosclerosis are commonly associated with stroke in the elderly, recent data suggests different causes for stroke in the young. We initiated the prospective, multinational European study Stroke in Young Fabry Patients (sifap) to characterize a cohort of young stroke patients. Methods— Overall, 5023 patients aged 18 to 55 years with the diagnosis of ischemic stroke (3396), hemorrhagic stroke (271), transient ischemic attack (1071) we…
Breakdown of the isobaric multiplet mass equation (IMME) at A=33, T=3/2
Mass measurements on 3 3 , 3 4 , 4 2 , 4 3 Ar were performed using the Penning trap mass spectrometer ISOLTRAP and a newly constructed linear Paul trap. This arrangement allowed us, for the first time, to extend Penning trap mass measurements to nuclides with half-lives below one second ( 33 Ar : T 1 / 2 = 174 ms ). A mass accuracy of about 10 − 7 ( δ m ≈ 4 keV ) was achieved for all investigated nuclides. The isobaric multiplet mass equation was checked for the A = 33 , T = 3 / 2 quartet and found to be inconsistent with the generally accepted quadratic form. peerReviewed