The intensities of infrared absorption due to the asymmetric stretching vibrations of interstitial oxygen atoms in Ge crystals enriched with O-16 and O-18 isotopes have been compared with oxygen concentrations determined by means of secondary ion mass spectrometry. For Ge samples with oxygen content less than 5 x 10(17) cm(-3), a good correlation has been found between the values of oxygen concent

The aim of the study was to investigate whether a supplement of antioxidants to subjects with a high working pace can influence the antioxidant capacity. The study was parallel and double blind with 98 subjects randomised into two groups. One of the groups was given a test drink with antioxidants for 4 weeks (450 ml/day) while the other group took a corresponding amount of placebo drink. The test

Background: Little or no knowledge is available about which service is offered to patients with heart failure in primary care. Aims: To describe nurse-led follow-up of patients with heart failure in primary care in Sweden. Methods and results: A questionnaire was sent to all primary health care centres in Sweden and 6 10 of 939 centres returned the questionnaire. Special nurses had designated time

The development of inhibitory antibodies to factor VIII is a serious complication of hemophilia. FEIBA (factor VIII inhibitor-bypassing activity), an activated prothrombin complex concentrate (aPCC), and NovoSeven, recombinant factor Vila (rFVIIa), are used as hemostatic bypassing agents in treating patients with inhibitors. The FENOC study was designed to test equivalence of the products in the t

In recent years, there has been an increasing demand from manufacturing industries for new tool materials such as more wear resistant zinc-alloys, with optimised characteristics regarding short-run sheet-metal parts production. Research on zinc-alloys wear resistance has been performed by a lot of research groups. However, it is very difficult to compare the wear resistance of these materials due

The human B1 bradykinin (BK) receptor (B1R) is more efficacious than the human B2 BK receptor (B2R) in both ligand-independent and agonist-dependent coupling to Gq/11-mediated phospholipase Cbeta activity. In fact, B1R is constitutively active, whereas B2R exhibits little if any constitutive activity. To evaluate the role of the C-terminal domain in receptor Gq/11 coupling, we constructed chimeric

Pyrene chromophores carrying different rigid rod spacer groups (ethynylene, ethynylene-phenylene-ethynylene, and ethynylene-bicyclo[2.2.2]octylene-ethynylene) and bound to TiO2 nanostructured materials via an isophthalic acid (Ipa) anchor group have been investigated using quantum chemical calculations in order to elucidate structural and electronic properties of dye-sensitized semiconductor struc

Multiconfigurational second-order perturbation theory, both in its single-state multiconfigurational second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2) and multistate (MS-CASPT2) formulations, is used to search for minima on the crossing seams between different potential energy hypersurfaces of electronic states in several molecular systems. The performance of the procedures is tested and discussed, focusi

Modification of graphite based screen printed electrodes (SPEs) by electrosynthesised polyaniline (PANI) has been applied to improve the electron exchange between cellobiose dehydrogenase (CDH, EC 1.1.99.18) from the ascomycete Myriococcum thermophilum and the surface of the SPE. The redox intermediate layer of the conducting polymer promotes the bioelectrocatalysis providing a higher current for

OBJECTIVE: In acute lung injury (ALI) mechanical ventilation damages lungs. We hypothesised that aspiration and replacement of dead space during expiration (ASPIDS) allows normocapnic ventilation at higher end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and reduced tidal volume (V(T)), peak and plateau pressures (Paw(peak), Paw(plat)), thus avoiding lung damage. SETTING: University Hospital. PATIENTS: Seven consec

This paper presents existence theories for several families of small-amplitude solitary-wave solutions to the classical two-dimensional water-wave problem in the presence of surface tension and with an arbitrary distribution of vorticity. Moreover, the established local bifurcation diagram for irrotational solitary waves is shown to remain qualitatively unchanged for any choice of vorticity distri

Cancer cells have aberrant patterns of DNA methylation including hypermethylation of gene promoter CpG islands and global demethylation of the genome. Genes that cause familial cancer, as well as other genes, can be silenced by promoter hypermethylation in sporadic tumors, but the methylation of these genes in tumors from kindreds with inherited cancer syndromes has not been well characterized. He

To maintain resting potentials in darkness, rod and cone photoreceptors incur a significant energy cost. But in brighter light, rods become energetically 'cheaper' than cones, which might explain the evolution of the vertebrate duplex retina.