In many mammals, the skin of the rhinarium includes a thick epidermal layer. The skin surface can be smooth but can also display a structure formed of domes, ridges, and polygonal areas: a dermatoglyphic or rhinoglyphic pattern. Each structure consists of an easily visible, large area of the epidermis. The abdominal epidermis may or may not have a dermatoglyphic pattern. The abdominal skin examine

Abstract in UndeterminedAn inventory is described of Rubus sect. Corylifolii from the province of Halland in south-west Swe- den. About 850 localities have been visited and field studies have been combined with chromo- some counting and random amplified polymorphic DNA studies. Ten traditional species have been observed, as well as six local species, two with over70 localities each. The other four

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Antihaemophilic-factor-A-antibodies, which had spontaneously arisen in 2 patients, were used to develop an immunoradiometric method for measurement of antihaemophilic factor A antigen (VIII:CAg). 13 patients with severe haemophilia A had VIII: CAg below the limit of detection (0.01 U/ml). Patients with moderate and mild haemophilia A either had VIII:CAg roughly equal to factor VIII clotting activi

A semistructured personal interview with 29 female carriers of hemophilia and 23 of their spouses was performed at a median of 3 1/2 years after the first chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and gene analysis. Carriers with a hemophilic father or brother, had high sense of coherence (SOC) scores, and thus would be expected to have good ability to handle the stress of prenatal diagnosis (PD). Prenatal

We have tried to calculate the free energy for the binding of six small ligands to two variants of the octa-acid deep cavitand host in the SAMPL5 blind challenge. We employed structures minimised with dispersion-corrected density-functional theory with small basis sets and energies were calculated using large basis sets. Solvation energies were calculated with continuum methods and thermostatistic

Will democracy improve the distribution of economic welfare? Do dictatorships leave long-run legacies behind? In this paper we explore four Ibero-American countries with some common historical traits, but also different contexts: Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and Chile. The two Iberian nations suffered long periods of autocratic regime in the 20th Century, while our south American cases had relatively

Denitrification during the sedimentation process in secondary settlers in waste-water treatment plants has been reported to be still a significant problem. The modelling of such a process with the conservation of mass leads to a nonlinear convection–diffusion–reaction partial differential equation, which needs non-standard numerical methods to obtain reliable simulations. The purpose of this study

Change Impact Analysis (CIA) during software evolution of safety-critical systems is a labor-intensive task. Several authors have proposed tool support for CIA, but very few tools were evaluated in industry. We present a case study on ImpRec, a recommendation System for Software Engineering (RSSE), tailored for CIA at a process automation company. ImpRec builds on assisted tracing, using informati

Background The relationship between meniscal tears and other joint pathologies with patient-reported symptoms is not clear. We investigated associations between structural knee pathologies identified at surgery with preoperative knee pain and function in patients undergoing arthroscopic meniscal surgery. Methods This study included 443 patients from the Knee Arthroscopy Cohort Southern Denmark (KA

Background and aims Little information is available on real-life occurrence of oral thrush in COPD patients treated with ICS. We investigated oral thrush incidence in COPD patients prescribed FDC ICS/LABA therapies and assessed whether it is modulated by the ICS type, dose, and delivery device. Methods We conducted a historical, observational, matched cohort study (one baseline year before and one

The evaluation of emergency, disaster and crisis management exercises supports both individual and organisational learning, facilitates the development of response capabilities, and helps to determine whether the current level of preparedness is good enough. Nevertheless, despite its importance in the field of disaster risk management, there is a lack of a comprehensive overview of research in the

I denna artikel redovisas en sammanställning av ett stort antal broprojekt mellan den japanska huvudön Honchu och den söder därom belägna ön Shikoku. Först ges en bakgrund vad gäller andra stora hängbroar och snedkabelbroar i världen. Därefter belyses och specifieras de aktuella japanska broarna i detalj. Sammantaget är brosystemen mellan Honchu och Shikoku imponerande inte bara vad gäller spännvi