Aims To describe clinical and demographic characteristics at baseline of a European cohort of adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) and to assess mortality and morbidity in a 5 year follow-up period. Methods and results Data collected as part of the Euro Heart Survey on adult CHD was analysed. This entailed information transcribed from the files of 4110 patients diagnosed with one of eight co

Background: In westernized societies, acne vulgaris is a nearly universal skin disease afflicting 79% to 95% of the adolescent population. In men and women older than 25 years, 40% to 54% have some degree of facial acne, and clinical facial acne persists into middle age in 12% of women and 3% of men. Epidemiological evidence suggests that acne incidence rates are considerably lower in nonwesterniz

We report measurements of the relative intensities of 81 emission linesof Fe II between 160 nm and 350 nm (62 168 cm-1 to 28 564cm-1) from 4 levels by high resolution Fourier transformspectrometry, using a Penning discharge lamp as light source. Theserelative intensities have been used to determine the line branchingfractions, which have then been combined with accurate experimentalradiative lifet

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In this paper, we investigate the dependency between the spectral envelopes of speech in disjoint frequency bands, one covering the telephone bandwidth from 0.3 kHz to 3.4 kHz and one covering the frequencies from 3.7 kHz to 8 kHz. The spectral envelopes are jointly modeled with a Gaussian mixture model based on mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and the log-energy-ratio of the disjoint frequency

Host-plant volatiles or other volatiles that attract moths, especially females, could be useful as trap baits or as a complement to pheromones in pest management. Three chocolate products, which had previously been found to be attractive to other pyralid moths, were screened by combined gas chromatography-electrophysiology for compounds that could be used for trapping of Ephestia kuehniella Zeller

Texture of potatoes with different shapes (slices and strips) were evaluated after frying and in some cases after baking. Blanched and unblanched potato slices (Bintje variety) were fried at four oil temperatures: 160, 170, 180 and 190C until reaching a moisture content of similar to1.7%. A puncture test with three point support for the slices was applied to measure the texture of potato chips usi

Fuel ethanol, produced from biomass, could well be tomorrow's replacement for gasoline. This thesis deals with the production of fuel ethanol from corn stover using an enzymatic process consisting of the following main steps: steam pretreatment of the raw material, enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation of the sugars and ethanol refining. SO2-catalysed steam pretreatment was shown to give high glucose

Over the last two decades there has been a striking and continuous increase in the prevalence of obesity both in industrialized and developing countries. Despite this global consistency there is a variation within countries with a higher prevalence of obesity within rural areas. The overall aim was to explore the prevalence of obesity and factors that influence the development of obesity in a rura

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in this paper, the problem of diffraction of a spherical wave by a hard half-plane is considered. The starting point is the Biot-Tolstoy theory of diffraction of a spherical wave by a fluid wedge with hard boundaries. In this theory, the field at a point in the fluid is composed eventually of a geometrical part: i.e., a direct component, one or two components due to the reflections on the sides of

To evaluate the effects of dietary phospholipids on plasma lipoproteins in the postprandial phase six normolipidemic men were fed alternatively a test meal rich in phosphatidylcholine and a control meal low in phosphatidylcholine. Plasma very low-density lipoproteins, low-density lipoproteins, and high-density lipoproteins were isolated at 2, 4 and 6 h after the meals. The changes in lipoprotein c

Vårterminen 98 gav Institutionen för Reglerteknik doktorandkursen Praktikfall i reglerteknik. Kursen bestod av ett projektarbete på en industri med reglertillämpningar. Den här rapporten redovisar resultatet av ett arbete på råspritbränneriet i Nöbbelöv, där basen för brännvinet Absolut Vodka tillverkas. Bränneriet hade problem med fluktuationer i koncentrationen av etanol i råspriten. ProjektgrupDuring spring 1998 the course Industrial Case Studies in Control was given at the Department of Automatic Control in Lund. The course consisted of a project at an industry with control applications. This report considers a project at the crude alcohol distillery in Nöbbelöv, where the base product for the liquor Absolut Vodka is produced. The distillery had problems with fluctuations in the concen