Background: Dairy product intake may be inversely associated with risk of type 2 diabetes, but the evidence is inconclusive for total dairy products and sparse for types of dairy products. Objective: The objective was to investigate the prospective association of total dairy products and different dairy subtypes with incidence of diabetes in populations with marked variation of intake of these foo

This document describes the technical layout and the expected performance of the Straw Tube Tracker (STT), the main tracking detector of the PANDA target spectrometer. The STT encloses a Micro-Vertex-Detector (MVD) for the inner tracking and is followed in beam direction by a set of GEM stations. The tasks of the STT are the measurement of the particle momentum from the reconstructed trajectory an

This paper provides a production and consumption-based empirical macroeconomic-climate assessment of Sweden’s CO2 emissions. The core methodology is based on three complementary quantitative methods, namely energy-economy-environment indicators, econometric analyses, and a multi-regional input output (MRIO) sectoral model. Based on the latest available data (1971–2011), indicators show a sharp dec

Biodiversity, the variety of life at all organisational levels from genes to ecosystems, affects ecosystem processes and therefore the goods and services ecosystems provide. More research is needed to provide new insights into biodiversity changes and the processes that drive these changes, in order to formulate effective policy and conservation measures to stop the ongoing biodiversity loss. In t

This book is a collection of articles on the subject of experimental archaeology as performed in the Nordic area, primarily the countries of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The book is a result of a network project involving universities and archaeological open-air museums in the Nordic countries. The book explores the present-day situation and maps future perspectives on the subject of experimental a

Background Diabetes has been defined on the basis of different biomarkers, including fasting plasma glucose (FPG), 2-h plasma glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test (2hOGTT), and HbA(1c). We assessed the effect of different diagnostic definitions on both the population prevalence of diabetes and the classification of previously undiagnosed individuals as having diabetes versus not having diabet

Pathological calcification is common among for instance dialysis patients, and this causes an increase in mortality risk. An elevated serum phosphate concentration among those patients strongly correlates to this increase. In this work investigations of the conditions, composition, crystallinity and morphology of in vitro calcification are performed and related to results from in vivo studies. The

For robots to be productive co-workers in the manufacturing industry, it is necessary that their human colleagues can interact with them and instruct them in a simple manner. The goal of our research is to lower the threshold for humans to instruct manipulation tasks, especially sensorcontrolled assembly. In our previous work we have presented tools for high-level task instruction, while in this p

This thesis deals with numerical simulation of reactive flows. The numerical method is three dimensional and unsteady, which allows for spatial and temporal resolution of most of the scales of the fluid motion and the reaction process. In the turbulent cases studied, scales down to Taylor scales are resolved. Hence, it can be considered to be a large eddy simulation, LES. In the laminar cases stud

Panic disorder is a severe anxiety disorder with recurrent, debilitating panic attacks. In individuals with panic disorder there is evidence of decreased central gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) activity as well as marked increases in autonomic and respiratory responses after intravenous infusions of hypertonic sodium lactate(1-3). In a rat model of panic disorder, chronic inhibition of GABA synthes

Currently, no method exists for determining the prestress forces in prestressed concrete structures. According to the theory of acoustoelasticity, the modulus of elasticity of concrete is stress dependent, which means that the resonance frequency of a concrete structure also is stress dependent. In this study, both short-term and long-term measurements of the resonance frequencies of four prestres

We have modified the popular MM/PBSA or MM/GBSA approaches (molecular mechanics for a biomolecule, combined with a Poisson-Boltzmann or generalized Born electrostatic and surface area nonelectrostatic solvation energy) by employing instead the statistical-mechanical, three-dimensional molecular theory of solvation (also known as 3D reference interaction site model, or 3D-RISM-KH) coupled with mole

Double emulsions have potential applications in the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries as vehicles for encapsulation and delivery of nutrients during food digestion or as drug release. The major drawback of this type of emulsions is that they are often difficult to stabilize. Particle stabilized emulsions, known as Pickering emulsions, show special features, such as being extremely stabl

Background: Sugarcane is an attractive feedstock for ethanol production, especially if the lignocellulosic fraction can also be treated in second generation (2G) ethanol plants. However, the profitability of 2G ethanol is affected by the processing conditions, operating costs and market prices. This study focuses on the minimum ethanol selling price (MESP) and maximum profitability of ethanol prod

With special reference to India and Indonesia the paper considers a number of methodological issues connected with the study of corruption. These include definitions of corruption, a public administration approach, the bazaar concept vs questions of family, network, and patronage, limitations to corruption, and the political impact.