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From economic choice to social choice in coastal management : A critical assessment of the use of cost-benefit analysis in the evaluation of an erosion control project in Flagler County, Florida, U.S.A.

Sustainable development remains of general interest in both political and academic circles. Importantly, the approach to collective decision making adopted in pursuit of sustainable development has importance repercussions regarding what range of possible informational considerations get incorporated as relevant to a given choice exercise. The most dominant approach to environmental public policy

Assessment of Commonly used Tool Life Models in Metal Cutting

In this work, eleven different combinations of work piece materials and tool grades have been evaluated in wear test when turning with cemented carbide insert. The most commonly used tool life models such as the Taylor model, the Extended Taylor model, the Coromant Turning model version 1 and the Colding model have been tested on the data and their accuracy is presented. The well-known Taylor mode

Online Alkali Measurement during Oxy-fuel Combustion

Coal has been the main fuel in the generation of heat and power for many years and will continue to be so for years to come. Global warming awareness has led to the Kyoto Protocol, which targets the abatement of six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2). For the abatement of CO2 emissions, co-combustion of coal and biomass is an attractive solution. Other mitigation solutions include ox

Om empatins problematik

Texten är en översättning av Edith Steins doktorsavhandling, Zum Problem der Einfühlung, publicerad 1917

Pyrolysis modeling of pvcusing distributed activation energy model-micro scale testing

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a common thermoplastic whichfinds widespread applications in the construction industry for usage inceiling linings, flooring materials, electrical cables and roofing materials. Several fire requirements are put on these types of applications. For fire safety engineering and product development, thermo-chemical decomposition modeling of PVC isrequired. The FIRETOOLS proj

High levels of (un)switched memory B cells are associated with better outcome in patients with advanced atherosclerotic disease

Background--Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory lipid disorder and the main underlying pathology of acute ischemic events. Despite a vast amount of data from murine atherosclerosis models, evidence of B-cell involvement in human atherosclerotic disease is limited. We therefore investigated the association of circulating B-cell subtypes with the occurrence of secondary cardiovascular events in advan

Glucose-induced Changes in Gene Expression in Human Pancreatic Islets - Causes or Consequences of Chronic Hyperglycemia

Dysregulation of gene expression in islets from type 2 diabetic patients might be causally involved in the development of hyperglycemia or it could develop as a consequence of hyperglycemia, i.e. glucotoxicity. To separate the genes potentially causally involved in pathogenesis from those likely to be secondary to the hyperglycemia we exposed islets from human donors to normal or high glucose conc

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in North India. Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, Pathophysiological Aspects and Genetic and Non-Genetic Origin in the State of Punjab.

Gestational diabetes mellitus(GDM) defines an unhealthy state of hyperglycaemia that develops in response to an otherwise normal physiological adaptive insulin resistance state during pregnancy. However, the exact plasma glucose levels differentiating the unhealthy GDM state from a normal pregnancy is unknown, and relies upon arbitrary cut off criteria based on associations with adverse health out

MRI of the swallow tail sign : A useful marker in the diagnosis of lewy body dementia?

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There are, to date, no MR imaging diagnostic markers for Lewy body dementia. Nigrosome 1, containing dopaminergic cells, in the substantia nigra pars compacta is hyperintense on SWI and has been called the swallow tail sign, disappearing with Parkinson disease. We aimed to study the swallow tail sign and its clinical applicability in Lewy body dementia and hypothesized that

The effect of white matter hyperintensities on statistical analysis of diffusion tensor imaging in cognitively healthy elderly and prodromal Alzheimer’s disease

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been used to study microstructural white matter alterations in a variety of conditions including normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are common in cognitively healthy elderly as well as in AD and exhibit elevated mean diffusivity (MD) and reduced fractional anisotropy (FA). However, the effect of WMH on statistical analy

C1-inactivator is upregulated in glioblastoma

Background: Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumor in adults. A key problem is the capacity of glioma cells to inactivate the body’s immune response. The complement system acts as a functional bridge between the innate and adaptive immune response. Still, the role of the complement system has almost been forgotten in glioma research. In our present study, we hyp

Cerebrovascular gene expression in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Hypertension is a hemodynamic disorder and one of the most important and well-established risk factors for vascular diseases such as stroke. Blood vessels exposed to chronic shear stress develop structural changes and remodeling of the vascular wall through many complex mechanisms. However, the molecular mechanisms involved are not fully understood. Hypertension-susceptible genes may provide a nov

Hembiträdet och spelfilmen : Stjärnor i det svenska folkhemmets 1930- och 40-tal

I början av 1930-talet var nära 200 000 kvinnor anställda som hembiträden i svenska hushåll, men många var missnöjda med sin arbetssituation. Under hotet om deras flykt från yrket aktualiserades genom en motion i Sveriges riksdag 1931 den så kallade hembiträdesfrågan, som skulle bli ett hett debattämne in i nästa decennium. Året därpå fick den svenska ljudfilmen sin första stora braksuccé: Vi som

Measuring the impact of dermatological conditions on family and caregivers : a review of dermatology-specific instruments

The patient is the centre of a web of relationships, and the impact of his/her disease on family members and caregivers must be taken into account. The aim of this study was to identify the specific instruments that measure the impact of a dermatological disease on the quality of life (QoL) of family members, by performing a systematic search of the literature. Fifteen papers were identified, desc

PERIODIC PARAMETER VARIATION IN A FULL SCALE TREATMENT PLANT WITH ALTERNATING OPERATION.

Biological nitrogen removal in a one sludge system based on alternating operation is described. Results from a half year of operation in a plant designed for a population of 33,000 people are presented showing 90% removal of total-nitrogen, 98% removal of BOD and 74% removal of total-phosphorus (without addition of chemicals). An experiment showing the parameter variation in the plant over 24 hour