The article consists in a presentation of endovascular surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in 23 cases. Two cases required conversion to open surgery, but the procedure could be completed in the remaining 21 cases, with a current duration of follow-up of up to 30 months. There was early leakage in one case, and late leakage in five cases. Late conversion has been necessary in three instan

In polyandrous insects, postcopulatory sexual selection is a pervasive evolutionary force favouring male and female traits that allow control of offspring paternity. Males may influence paternity through adaptations for sperm competition, and females through adaptations facilitating cryptic female choice. Yet, the mechanisms are often complex, involving behaviour, physiology or morphology, and the

We evaluated the cost effectiveness of treating uncomplicated gonorrhoea in a theoretical cohort of 1000 adults (nonpregnant women of reproductive age, or men) with either intramuscular ceftriaxone 125 mg or a single oral dose of cefixime 400 mg, ofloxacin 400 mg or ciprofloxacin 500 mg. We assumed that all patients were also empirically treated for uncomplicated chlamydial infection, with either

The effect of microbial desulfurization of two different low-sulfur coals by the thermophilic archaebacteria Acidianus brierleyi was studied with respect to the following properties of the coal: porosity, surface area, pore diameter, particle size, heating value, proximate and ultimate analyses as well as ash composition. About 35-40 percent of the sulfur was oxidized microbially. The microbial tr

BACKGROUND: Non-progressive labour is the most common complication in nulliparas and is primarily treated by augmentation. Augmented labour is often terminated by instrumental delivery. Little qualitative research has addressed experiences of non-progressive and augmented deliveries. The aim of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the experience of non-progressive and augmented labour

Pressurized Liquid Extraction was utilized for the extraction of seven selected polychlorinated biphenyls (28, 52, 101, 118, 153, and 180) from a naturally contaminated fishmeal and two feed samples fortified with a naturally contaminated fish oil sample. In order to assure sufficient extraction efficiencies, the extraction solvent, the extraction temperature, and the flush volume were optimised b

Advances in technology, such as laser capture microdissection (LCM), have allowed for the specific sampling of cells within their natural functional micro-environment. In model systems using LCM, we have studied the global protein expression profiles of airway epithelial cells during a response to allergen provocation. Bronchial epithelial cells were first identified and phenotyped histologically

Several experiments and theoretical models of intermediate energy heavy ion collision physics are presented in this thesis. Statistical and dynamical aspects of nuclear collisions are widely discussed these days, particularly in connection with the multifragmentation phenomenon and the possible link to a liquid-gas phase transition in the spinodal region of nuclear matter phase diagram. Experiment

Popular Abstract in Swedish Denna avhandling är resultatet av ett doktorandprojekt vid Kvartärgeologiska avdelningen, Lunds Universitet. Syftet med undersökningen var att rekonstruera vegetations-, klimat- och havsnivåförändringar på Skagi-halvön, norra Island, under sen-Weichsel och tidig-Holocen. Nordatlantområdet genomgick en serie dramatiska klimatväxlingar i samband med övergången från den sSediment sequences from five lakes on the Skagi peninsula, northern Iceland, were subjected to mineral magnetic analysis, carbon analysis, pollen analysis, plant macrofossil analysis, diatom analysis, radiocarbon dating and tephra analysis in order to make detailed reconstructions of vegetation, climate and sea level during the Late Weichselian and Early Holocene. The main purpose was to investiga

Sargeant et al. conclude from model calculations,in their paper [Phys. Rev. C 65 024302 (2002)] that the degree of chaos in normal deformed states does not enhance the decay out from the superdeformed band. We show that this conclusion is based on a rather unlikely assumption.

5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is a common biosynthetic intermediate of both chlorophyll and heme. Glutamyl-tRNAGlu reductase, encoded by the hemA gene, is the initial enzyme of ALA biosynthesis. The presence of several hemA genes provides a possible explanation to the ability of plants to meet the different requirement of chlorophyll and heme using a common biosynthetic pathway. In this work, two ba

This book deals with ’have’ in ancient Greek. Two different types of ’have’-constructions were used, viz., on the one hand, the active transitive verb ἔχω and, on the other hand, the verb εἶναι, ’be’, with a complement in the dative case (here called the ἔστι μοι construction). A transitive ’have’ does not seem to be of Proto-Indo-European origin but rather an innovation in separate Indo-European

Monoclonal antibodies for targeting cytotoxic conjugates to tumor cells are currently being evaluated together with extracorporeal affinity adsorption. The aim of the adsorption was to reduce undesired side effects in normal organs and to increase the tumor-to-normal tissue ratios. This technique is also applicable to several other therapeutic areas such as immune-mediated disorders, that is, auto