Our aim was to describe voluntary associations for patients with cancer in Sweden (n=108) and their activities, type and extent of member support, and the associations' collaboration with the health care system. A specially constructed questionnaire with structured and open questions was used for the investigation. The frequency of answers was 89%. The results show in the broadest sense that the a

I rapporten presenteras en brottmekanisk modell kallad Fictitious Crack Model, FCM, med vilken det är möjligt att beräkna sprickbildning i trä.

To study the role of glutathione peroxidase for lipid oxidation in meat, chicken and duck muscle were heated to an internal temperature of 60, 70 or 80 degrees C and the meats were then stored at 8 degrees C for up to 6 days. Thiobarbituric-acid-reactive substances (TBARS) and glutathione peroxidase (GSHPx) activity were measured on days 0, 1, 3 and 6. In heated muscle samples, TBARS increased dur

The planning and construction of a facility can affect several interests. Positive effects are, for instance, better communications, better housing and a higher standard of living. However, construction projects inevitably bring varying degrees of deterioration and change at the local level, not least at the construction site. Representatives of these interests are referred to as the project's sta

Filmrecension av Ridley Scotts Black Hawk Down.

Treatment of Ru-3(CO)(12) with dpphSe(2) (dpph = 1,6-bis(diphenylphosphino)-hexane) in refluxing toluene in the presence of Me3NO afforded two new compounds, Ru-3(CO)(7)(mu-CO)(mu(3)-Se)(mu-dpph) (1) and Ru-3(CO)(7)(mu(3)-Se)(2)(mu-dpph) (2). A similar reaction of Ru-3(CO)(12) with dpppeSe(2)(dpppe=1,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)pentane) gave exclusively Ru-3(CO)(7)(mu(3)-Se)(2)(mu-dpppe) (3). Treatmen

The present paper explores possible reasons why acceptance and mindfulness techniques may be beneficial in the treatment of insomnia. First, it is argued that sleep is facilitated by cognitive deactivation, with less controlled information processing as compared with daytime functioning, and correspondingly more acceptance of spontaneously occurring physiological and mental processes. Second, it i

The IWA Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1) was presented in 2002 and is expected to represent the state-of-the-art model within this field in the future. Due to its complexity the implementation of the model is not a simple task and several computational aspects need to be considered, in particular if the ADM1 is to be included in dynamic simulations of plant-wide or even integrated systems. I

Home mechanical ventilation (HMV) is increasingly used as a therapeutic option to patients with symptomatic chronic hypoventilation. There is, however, a paucity of solid data on factors that could affect prognosis in patients on home ventilation. In the present study, our aim was to study several factors in these patients with potential influence on survival. We examined 1526 adult patients from

1. The objective of the present study was to investigate human omental arteries and veins with respect to: (i) the contractile effect of the thromboxane A2 analogue U46619, (ii) endothelium-dependency and mediators of the relaxing effect of substance P (SP) and acetylcholine (ACh). 2. Changes in isometric tension in response to administration of U46619, SP and ACh were measured in human isolated o

Phanerochaete chrysosporium, Pleurotus ostreatus, Trametes versicolor and Bjerkandera sp. BOL13 were tested for their ability to degrade the endocrine-disrupting compound nonylphenol at an initial concentration of 100 mg l–1. The highest removals were achieved with T. versicolor and Bjerkandera sp. BOL13, which were able to degrade 97 mg l–1 and 99 mg l–1 of nonylphenol in 25 days of incubation, r

We investigated the transmission properties and the phenotypic effects of two mitochondrial plasmids in a population of the bladder campion, Silene vulgaris. In reciprocal crosses between plasmid-free and plasmid-carrying plants, no cases of paternal transmission or loss during maternal transmission were recorded. Neither was any transmission via pollen observed when plasmid-carrying plants of S,