This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...

Using coherent inelastic neutron scattering we have investigated the phonon dispersion relation of bulk hexagonal 6H-SiC. The complete set of phonon branches has been determined along the Γ−A and 14 out of 36 branches along the Γ−M direction. The experimental data are compared to ab initio...