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...

In this study we analyze the relationship between heat events and mortality in Germany. The main research questions are: Does heat lead to rising mortality and if yes, are the eects persistent or compensated for in the near future? Furthermore, we consider dierences between heat eects in urban...