As the climate is becoming drier and extreme climatic patterns intensify worldwide, the present water scarcity worsens. Options are urgently needed for harvesting the increasingly variable rainwater ...

The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) revised its methods paper and published the German original version "Allgemeine Methoden 6.0" (General ...

Biological tissue such as articular cartilage 1, myocardium 2, aortic valve 3, arterial walls 4, and skin 5 exhibit a stress strain behavior that strongly depends on the collagen fiber distribution.

IQWiG published the draft for the new version of the General Methods at the end of 2019 and called for comments. The Institute then received 40 comments, some of them very detailed. After the deadline ...