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This work describes the development of a two-phase hollow fiber liquid phase microextraction method for the determination of three hydrophobic transformation products of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ketoprofen, ibuprofen and diclofenac: 3-acetobenzophenone, 4´-isobutylacetophenone and diclofenac amide. The optimized method involved extraction for 180min at a stirring speed of 440rpm. H

Abstract in UndeterminedBy comparing three types of hybrid organizations-18th-century scientific academies, 19th-century institutions of higher vocational education, and 20th-century industrial research institutes-it is the purpose here to answer the question of why new hybrid organizations are continuously formed. Traditionally, and often implicitly, it is often assumed that emerging groups of po

A reduced model of a completely stirred-tank bioreactor coupled to a settling tank with recycle is analyzed in its steady states. In the reactor, the concentrations of one dominant particulate biomass and one soluble substrate component are modelled. While the biomass decay rate is assumed to be constant, growth kinetics can depend on both substrate and biomass concentrations, and optionally model

Highly adhesive glycoprotein von Willebrand factor (VWF) multimer induces platelet aggregation and leukocyte tethering or extravasation on the injured vascular wall, contributing to microvascular plugging and inflammation in brain ischemia-reperfusion. A disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin type-1 motifs 13 (ADAMTS13) cleaves the VWF multimer strand and reduces its prothrombotic a

In this paper, we show that large connected slip patches (hydrophobic patches) are a necessity to induce macroscopic slip effects of water flow in microchannels. For this purpose, the 2D fluid flow between a planar stationary surface with alternating stick and slip patches and a parallel planar surface moving with a constant relative velocity has been studied by computer simulations based on Navie

When a country liberalizes trade through lowering taxes on imports, it stands before a number of challenges. Recovering lost trade tax revenue is one of them. Cape Verde is one of the countries that are currently negotiating an Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU and studies predict that the tariff reductions resulting from the agreement may have a severe impact on Cape Verde’s government r

Allmänt känt hos många jurister – om inte alla – är att allmän domstol använder sig av vissa utarbetade modeller eller metoder då den har att utföra en tolkningsoperation på ett avtal. Dessa metoder underlättar för tolkaren att uppvisa enhetlighet i bedömningen så att lika avtal tolkas lika. Detta är även önskvärt då det leder till ett visst mått av förutsägbarhet. Allmänna reklamationsnämnden är Common knowledge among Swedish lawyers is that the Swedish Court – in cases regarding the interpretation of a contract – uses certain established methods for determining the proper content of that contract. These methods help the interpreter (in most cases a judge or an arbitrator) to uphold uniformity so that all cases that are alike are treated the same. These methods also help in withholding a

Congregational singing goes long back in time and has always been seen as an extra addition to praising the Lord, in addition to praying. The purpose of this essay is to see how different congregations in the town of Växjö works whit the congregational singing. I studied two congregations from the Church of Sweden and one congregation from the Pentecostal and the Evangelical church. In my study I

Since the down of archaeology much of the resurges has focused on graves and grave materials. This essay is an attempt to interpret a grave material to the society of the living, to investigate what a megalithic grave material can tell us about the society that made them and the people that were buried in them. The study is focused upon two megalithic graves in Löderup; Ramshög and Carlshög. A st

This paper presents measurements of top-antitop quark pair (tt¯) production in association with additional b-jets. The analysis utilises 140 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Fiducial cross-sections are extracted in a final state featuring one electron and one muon, with at least three or four b

Despite frequent use of conodonts as an archive for seawater 87Sr/86Sr, available diagenetic screening tools are inconsistent predictors of primary seawater 87Sr/86Sr preservation. Here, we attempt to isolate variables affecting the preservation of seawater 87Sr/86Sr in conodonts. We present new Middle–Late Ordovician (∼470–450 Ma) conodont 87Sr/86Sr from mid-paleolatitude (30–45°S) carbonate succ

Time-of-flight mass-spectrometry (TOF-MS) measurements of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate ([EMIM][OTF]) vapors have been conducted in order to gain insight into the VUV (vacuum ultraviolet) absorption thresholds. The experimental data were interpreted with hybrid density-functional theory (DFT), time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT), and several flavours of many-body perturbation theor

AIMS: To investigate the prevalence of diastolic dysfunction and associated risk factors in pre-diabetes and diabetes in the general population.METHODS: Diastolic function was assessed by transthoracic echocardiography in a cross-sectional sample of 3840 men and women aged 50-64 years from the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study. Anthropometry, medical history, blood pressure, biochemistry and

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Under de senaste årtiondena har norra Ghana drabbats av missväxt i samband med torka vid ett flertal tillfällen. Jordbrukarna i området är beroende av den mängd nederbörd som faller under den enda regnperioden, mellan april och september. En avvikelse från den årliga medelnederbörden kan därför medföra en reducering eller fullständig kollaps av spannmålsproduktiNorthern Ghana experiences one dry season per year, but severe droughts may occur more infrequently. This is of concern to the local farmers of the Tamne River Basin (northeast Ghana) who depend on adequate rainfall amounts during the rainy season. Unfavourable precipitation amounts may lead to catastrophic consequences. It is therefore crucial to develop methods for predicting the distribution of

This thesis gives a contribution to strategy-proof social choice theory, in which one investigates to what extent there exist voting procedures that never can be manipulated in the sense that some voter by misrepresentation of his preferences can change the outcome of the voting and obtain an alternative he prefers to that honest voting would give. When exactly one element should be elected from a

Importance: Aortic stiffness, as assessed by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, is an independent predictor of future events in individuals with hypertension. Recent data suggest a predictive role of estimated pulse wave velocity (ePWV) calculated by previously published equations using age and blood pressure in future events in individuals with hypertension. Objective: To investigate whether eP