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While implementing the EC Procurement Directives in Swedish legislation, there remains a reference to 'business-like' (affärsmässig) practice as an external system of norms. The problem is that the term a. might contradict non-economic considerations in the award of contracts. Municipal procurement is often managed by professionals with limited legal expertise, and diverging practices are found. I
Sera from patients with sexually acquired reactive arthritis (SARA) with antibodies reacting with C. trachomatis and C. pneumoniae (group 1; n = 20) and also with C. psittaci (group 2; n = 19) were analyzed for antibody specificity. Sera from group 2 reacted significantly more often with C. trachomatis serotype E, H and K and had higher antibody titers to serotype E, as tested by microimmunofluore
Compared with Hipparcos, Gaia will give an enormous improvement in accuracy, completeness and number of stars: about two orders of magnitude in accuracy, four orders in number, and a completeness limit that is 12 magnitudes fainter. How is all this possible? The answer is: by a combination of many factors, the most important being bigger and more efficient detectors, and bigger optics. The method
Satellite telemetry was used to record the submergence duration of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) as they migrated from Ascension Island to Brazil (N=12 individuals) while time/depth recorders (TDRs) were used to examine the depth distribution and dive profiles of individuals returning to Ascension Island to nest after experimental displacement (N=5 individuals). Satellite telemetry revealed that
In this article I present findings from my earlier research on reconciliation in South Africa and Northern Ireland, together with some issues raised by my current research project on “reconciliation in South Africa from women’s perspectives”. Reconciliation is seen as a process whereby the diverse “moral landscapes” held in a war-torn society are addressed, with the aim of building, rebuilding or
Background/Aims: Trypsinogen activation and inflammation are early events in acute pancreatitis. This experimental study aimed to show the effects of dexamethasone on them. Methods: Cerulein and taurocholate pancreatitis were induced in 2 groups of 12 Wistar rats each. Six animals per group were injected with dexamethasone 1 h prior to the induction of acute pancreatitis. Amylase, phospholipase A2
The authors study the elastic deformation held in lattice-mismatched core-shell nanowires with single and multiple shells. The authors consider infinite wires with a hexagonal cross section under the assumption of translational symmetry. The strain distributions are found by minimizing the elastic energy per unit cell using the finite element method. The authors find that the trace of the strain i
Objective To describe the views of people, 65 years and over, receiving continuous public care and service, on prioritization and resource allocation in health care, in relation to gender, age, housing, health-related quality of life (QoL) and degree of activities of daily living (ADL) dependency. Background How older people receiving continuous public care and service view prioritization and res
Early signal relay steps upon ligand binding to the receptor tyrosine kinase Flt3, i.e. sites of Flt3 autophosphorylation and subsequent docking partners, are mainly unresolved. By immunoprecipitation of specific tryptic peptides contained in the juxtamembrane region of human Flt3 and subsequent radiosequencing we identified the tyrosine residues 572, 589, 591 and 599 as in vivo autophosphorylatio
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a debilitating motor function disorder due primarily to a loss of midbrain dopaminergic neurons and a subsequent reduction in dopaminergic innervation of the striatum. Several attempts have been made to generate dopaminergic neurons from progenitor cell populations in vitro for potential use in cell replacement therapy for PD. However, expanding cells from fetal brain w
Supported liquid membrane (SLM) extraction of Cu(II), with di(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate in kerosene as organic phase, has been studied using a flat PTFE membrane. The influence of donor phase flow rate on the extraction efficiency and the mass transfer coefficient was investigated. The dependence of extraction efficiency of Cu(II) on the presence of the humic acids (HA) in donor phase was also inves
