Thomas Schmid

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a panel dataset of 660 listed firms in the 1995 to 2006 period from Germany, an economy that is traditionally characterized by concentrated ownership structures and strong family capitalism, and found that family firms exhibit a higher propensity and level for both dividend payments and total payouts.

TL;DR: An optimized detection geometry for absorption measurements in opaque liquids is described, using two orthogonal detectors based on piezoelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) forulsed laser photoacoustic spectroscopy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first photoacoustic absorption spectra of biofilms in the visible and near infrared range and corresponding depth-resolved measurements are presented for online and in situ monitoring of bio-films is demonstrated.

TL;DR: The first robotic resection of an ectopic mediastinal thyroid adenoma in a 72-year-old woman was reported, which was part of staged management for excessive bilateral cervical goiter with intrathoracic dispersion.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that proton pencil minibeam radiotherapy has better tissue-sparing for smaller σ/ctc, corresponding to larger peak-to-valley dose ratios PVDR, with the best effect for σ /ctc < 0.032, which suggests that Proton minibeams therapy spares healthy tissue not only in the skin but even for dose distributions appearing in deeper layers close to the tumor enhancing its benefits for clinical proton therapy.