1. We measured the abundance and biomass of filter-feeding microcrustacean zooplankton and calculated their grazing impact on phytoplankton biomass during summer in five shallow, mesotrophic to eutrophic lakes. For three of the lakes data exist both from years with dense submerged vegetation and low turbidity (the clearwater state), as well as from years characterised by sparse vegetation and high

Purpose of review To examine the development of recombinant FVIIa (rFVIIa); a new concept of inducing hemostasis. It was developed for use in hemophilia patients with inhibitors against FVIII or FIX with the vision to provide these patients with a therapeutical option to be used instead of FVIII or FIX. For the first time it was shown that pharmacological doses of FVIIa induced hemostasis. Recent

We report on large-scale ab initio calculations for intercombination lines in Si I-like ions. Two measurable quantities, the lifetime of the 3s3p(3 5)S(2) level and the branching ratio of the two lines are discussed, to infer the importance of different features of our calculations. The effects of core polarization, two-body spin-dependent operators and Dirac contra Breit-Pauli approaches are disc

Popular Abstract in Swedish Respiratorbehandling i hemmet till patienter med kronisk underventilering (som kan bero på flera olika grundsjukdomar) har blivit allmänt accepterad, eftersom behandlingen kan ge symptomlindring och förbättrad överlevnad. Syfte: Att undersöka vilka behandlingsmotiv som föranleder start av respiratorbehandling i hemmet och att kvantifiera effekterna av behandlingen på pHome mechanical ventilation in patients with chronic respiratory failure secondary to several different diseases has become widely acceptable as the provision of ventilatory support can provide symptomatic relief and increase life expectancy. Aims: To study the selection criteria underlying the initiation of home mechanical ventilation and to quantify the effects of in relation to blood gases and

Glycosylation defects occur in several human diseases. In IgA nephropathy, IgA1 contains O-glycans that are galactose-deficient and consist mostly of core 1 alpha2,6 sialylated N-acetylgalactosamine, a configuration suspected to prevent beta1,3 galactosylation. We confirmed the same aberrancy in IgA1 secreted by the human DAKIKI B cell line. Biochemical assays indicated CMP-NeuAc:GalNAc-IgA1 alpha

Objective. Accurate and reproducible assessment of myocardial infarction is important for treatment planning in patients with ischemic heart disease. This study describes a novel method to quantify myocardial infarction by semi-automatic delineation of hyperenhanced myocardium in delayed contrast enhanced (DE) magnetic resonance (MR) images. Design. The proposed method automatically detects the hy

Provitamin D2, vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 were identified in the thallus of a lichen species, Cladina arbuscula (Wallr.) Hale and W.L. Culb. The identification of vitamin D3 was supported by: (1) co-chromatography in both reverse and straight phase HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography), (2) ultraviolet absorption spectrum, and (3) molecular ion peaks demonstrated by ESI (electrospray ionisa

The recycling heparan sulfate (HS)-containing proteoglycan glypican-1 (Gpc-1) is processed by nitric oxide (NO)-catalyzed deaminative cleavage of its HS chains at N-unsubstituted glucosamines. This generates anhydromannose (anMan)-containing HS degradation products that can be detected by a specific antibody. Here we have attempted to identify the intracellular compartments where these products ar

The Davies transformation is a method to transform the steering vector of a uniform circular array (UCA) to one with Vandermonde form. As such, it allows techniques such as spatial smoothing for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in a correlated signal environment, developed originally for uniform linear arrays, to be applied to UCAs. However, the Davies transformation can be highly sensitive t

Context: Previous in vitro studies have demonstrated that the UDP glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) 2B15 and UGT2B17 glucuronidate androgens and their metabolites. Objective: Our objective was to determine in vivo whether the UGT2B15 (DY)-Y-85 and the UGT2B17 deletion polymorphisms predict androgen glucuronidation and body composition. Participants: Two population-based cohorts including young adult (

High-spin states in the mass A~60 region were populated using the state-of-art gamma-ray spectrometers Gammasphere, Euroball, and GASP in conjunction with dedicated ancillary detectors. In particular, the 59Cu nucleus was studied in several experiments, and a very extensive level scheme was determined. It comprises more than 320 transitions connecting about 150 excited states. Relative to mass, it

The coagulum proteins of human semen, semenogelins I and II, are secreted in abundance by the seminal vesicles. Their function in reproduction is poorly understood as they are rapidly degraded in ejaculated semen. However, more recent results indicate that it is time to put the semenogelins in a broader physiological perspective that goes beyond reproduction and fertility.

Approximately 5 to 7% of patients with hemophilia A have inhibitory antibodies to factor (F) VIII, which increases to similar to 13% in patients with severe disease. The strongest determinant of the risk of inhibitor development identified is the type of mutation in the FVIII gene that gives rise to the disease. However, accumulating evidence clearly indicates that other genetic factors (e.g., maj

As more and more applications and services in our society now depend on the Internet, it is important that dynamically deployed wireless multi hop networks are able to gain access to the Internet and other infrastructure networks and services. This thesis proposes and evaluates solutions for providing multi hop Internet Access. It investigates how ad hoc networks can be combined with wireless and

The opportunities of using hydrophobic pervaporation to concentrate organic components in aroma recovery and wastewater treatment have been recognized widely. The focus of this article is on the influence of the support layer on the mass transfer in hydrophobic pervaporation. Even though the influence of the support layer on the overall mass transfer has been observed experimentally, the modeling