The aim of the study was to establish the influence of dexamethasone and alpha-ketoglutarate administration to pregnant sows on the prenatal programming of the growth hormone level, cortisol, insulin and IGF-I in the blood serum of newborn piglets assessed just after their birth and prior to suckling. The foetal development is dependent on and determined by hormones such as glucocorticoids as well

Results on transverse mass spectra of neutral pious measured at central rapidity are presented for impact parameter selected 158-A GeV Pb + Pb-1 and Pb + Nb collisions. The distributions cover the range 0.5 GeV/c(2) less than or equal to MT - Mo less than or equal to 4 GeV/c(2). The change of the spectral shape and the multiplicity with centrality is studied in detail. In going from p+p to semi-pe

Two cyclomaltodextrinases (CDase) of thermophilic origin were investigated for their action on cyclodextrins. Although most CDases known today are made up of at least homodimers, one of the enzymes studied was shown to be a monomer in solution, while the other one was a dimer. Interestingly, the dimeric enzyme had a much superior selectivity for a cyclodextrin substrate compared to its monomeric h

Historical archaeology in the present : Personal reflections on the subject, now that medieval archaeology at Lund University from January 2005 has been transformed into an historical archaeology.

Resonant Auger electron spectra of core excited O-3 (O(F)1s(-1) 2b(1)(1)) are presented for the first time. The photoionization valence spectrum with sample purity and resolution superior to those published is presented. The first direct experimental evidence for the (C) over tilde (2) B-1 state of O-3(+) is found. Ab initio calculations of the resonant Auger electron (RAE) spectrum have been perf

We have here, for the first time, used nanofabrication techniques to reproduce aspects of the ordered actomyosin arrangement in a muscle cell. The adsorption of functional heavy meromyosin (HMM) to five different resist polymers was first assessed. One group of resists (MRL-6000.1XP and ZEP-520) consistently exhibited high quality motility of actin filaments after incubation with HMM. A second gro

BACKGROUND: The mechanism behind the antiviral action of interferon (IFN) therapy in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is not well understood, and, furthermore, few factors have been shown to be good predictors of a favourable response to IFN treatment in chronic HCV infection. METHODS: Freshly explanted liver cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from 80 patients with chroni

Eleven healthy women with regular menstrual cycles were examined with a combination of two-dimensional real-time ultrasound and color and spectral Doppler techniques on the 7th day after follicular rupture, and on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th days of menstrual bleeding. Both uterine arteries, arteries in the stroma and hila of both ovaries, in the wall of the largest follicle of the non-dominant ovar

This thesis contains two parts. The first part deals with a stochastic impulse control problem, subject to the restriction of a minimum time lapse in between interventions made by the controller. We prove existence of an optimal control and show that the value function of the control problem satisfies a system of quasi-variational inequalities. Furthermore, we apply the control method to pri

The development of new generic technologies occurs within traditional structures of industry - government interaction, but also unleashes a process of 'creative destruction' generating new institutional patterns. This article, focusing on biotechnology, describes and compares policy processes and institutional arrangements in Australia and Sweden. The Swedish biotechnology sector displays a patter

A constitutive model for diffusionless phase transitions in elastoplastic materials undergoing large deformations is developed. The model takes basic thermodynamic relations as its starting point and the phase transition is treated through an internal variable (the phase fractions) approach. The usual yield potential is used together with a transformation potential to describe the evolution of the