Many of the immigrant workers who came to Sweden from the sixties onwards, and their children, are stereotyped as ‘black skulls’. They are seen as silent, passive and mired in ‘traditional’ cultures, a stereotype that also pervades the trade union bureaucracies which are closely tied to the dominant Social Democratic Party. But interviews with activists in the FAI, a network of immigrant union act

Systematic calculations of atomic properties, using the Multiconfiguration and Configuration Interaction techniques, are discussed. Different quality criteria for atomic structure calculations are pointed out, and examples are given to illustrate these points. Among the properties discussed are oscillator strengths for resonance lines, magnetic dipole hyperfine structure constants, lifetimes of me

Prothrombin time (PT) is clinically important and is used to monitor oral anticoagulant therapy. To obtain PT results in international normalized ratio (INR), the current standardization procedure is complex and involves reference reagents. The PT of diluted plasma samples can be determined with a combined thromboplastin (the Owren-type procedure), but not necessarily with a plain thromboplastin (

OBJECTIVE: to determine the relative significance of ultrasonographic parameters of carotid plaques to develop an Activity Index (AI) which could correlate with clinical findings. METHOD: two hundred and fifteen plaques in 141 patients underwent ultrasonography and computer-assisted structural analysis. In half the patients (group 1), plaques were classified as either homogeneous and heterogeneous

I artikeln presenteras Viktor Rydbergs journalistik i tidningen Tomtebissen från 1857. Därefter följer i helhet den första artikeln som Rydberg lät publicera i tidningen.

We studied the association between alexithymia (20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, TAS-20) and obesity, and also assessed the construct validity of the TAS-20 in terms of personality dimensions in obese patients. The TAS-20 and its subscales were analysed for their correlations with the NEO Personality Inventory - Revised (NEO PI-R) in an obese sample of 259 patients. Obesity was associated with h

The mechanistic implications of the kinetic behaviour of a fusion protein of mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase and citrate synthase have been reanalysed in view of predictions based on experimentally determined kinetic parameter values for the dehydrogenase and synthase activities of the protein. The results show that the time-course of citrate formation from malate in the coupled reaction cataly

SAMMANFATTNING Rapporten är en översiktlig behandling av praktiska frågeställningar och problem i samband med putsade fasader. Olika fasadbehandlingar beskrivs med avseende på ingående material, egenskaper och användningsområden. I huvudsak behandlas oorganiska tjockputser, oorganiska och organiska ytskikt samt impregneringar. De vanligaste tekniska problemområdena i samband med putser och ytskikt

To increase the pace of development and deployment of new services and applications in telecommunication networks, new service architectures have been proposed. Parlay/OSA is one of the proposals that has aroused most attention. By providing network functionality via Application Program Interfaces (APIs), Parlay/OSA facilitates creation of telecommunication services and applications for independen

Intraspecific interactions may increase or decrease foraging rates of individual consumers, and such facilitation or interference interactions should affect individual foraging economies as well as predator-prey processes at the population level. To mechanistically predict individual foraging performance, we need to investigate the effects of positive and negative interactions on separate foraging

New dynamic, semistatic, and fully static single-clock CMOS latches and flipflops are proposed. By removing the speed and power bottlenecks of the original true-single-phase clocking (TSPC) and the existing differential latches and flipflops, both delays and power consumptions are considerably reduced. For the nondifferential dynamic, the differential dynamic, the semistatic, and the fully static

Chromosomal region 13q21-q22 harbors a putative breast cancer susceptibility gene and has been implicated as a common site for somatic deletions in a variety of malignant tumors. We have built a complete physical clone contig for a region between D13S1308 and AFM220YE9 based on 18 yeast artificial chromosome and 81 bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones linked together by 22 genetic markers

BACKGROUND: End-to-side nerve repair is attachment of a single distal nerve segment (recipient nerve) end-to-side to an intact donor nerve when there is a lack of proximal nerve segment after injury. The technique is currently used clinically but the mechanism(s) behind this technique are essentially unknown. METHODS: We have studied end-to-side nerve repair in the forelimb of rats, where a single

An existence and uniqueness result for bounded, positive solutions x(t) of the equation u" + f (t, u, u') = 0, t greater than or equal to t(0) greater than or equal to 0, is established by means of the Banach contraction principle. For such a solution it is shown that alpha(t) less than or equal to x'(t) less than or equal to beta(t), t greater than or equal to t(0), where alpha, beta are given no

Objective To determine whether subjective evaluation of the morphology of the vessel tree of ovarian tumors, as depicted by three-dimensional (3D) power Doppler ultrasound, can discriminate between benign and malignant ovarian tumors, and whether it improves characterization compared with using gray-scale ultrasound imaging alone. Methods A consecutive series of 104 women scheduled for surgical r