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Identifying the genetic variants that regulate fasting glucose concentrations may further our understanding of the pathogenesis of diabetes. We therefore investigated the association of fasting glucose levels with SNPs in 2 genome-wide scans including a total of 5,088 nondiabetic individuals from Finland and Sardinia. We found a significant association between the SNP rs563694 and fasting glucose
N,N-Dimethylacrylamide is polymerized in the lyotropic surfactant system containing Aerosol-OT (AOT) and water. The polymerization is thermally initiated with AIBN, which allows a homogeneous initiation in this very viscous mixture. The starting mixture contains a lamellar liquid crystalline phase and an isotropic phase in equilibrium. After the polymerization, new phases develop which appear to h
Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) measurement and large eddy simulation (LES) were used to study confined isothermal turbulent swirling flows in a model dump combustor. The aim was to gain deeper understanding of the flow and turbulence structures in dump combustors and to examine the capability of LES for prediction of turbulent swirling flows. A refractive index matching technique is used in the L
Rhesus Rhadinovirus (RRV) is currently the closest known, fully sequenced homolog of human Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). Both these viruses encode complement inhibitors: KSHV-complement control protein (KCP) and RRV-complement control protein (RCP). Previously we characterized in detail the functional properties of KCP as complement inhibitor. Herein, we performed comparative ana
A new member of the human cystatin multigene family has been cloned from a genomic library using a cystatin C cDNA probe. The complete nucleotide sequence of a 4.3-kilobase DNA segment, containing a complete gene with structure very similar to those of known Family 2 cystatin genes, was determined. The novel gene, called CST4, is composed of three exons and two introns. It contains the coding info
Probability distributions of daily maximum and minimum temperatures in a suite of ten RCMs are investigated for (1) biases compared to observations in the present day climate and (2) climate change signals compared to the simulated present day climate. The simulated inter-model differences and climate changes are also compared to the observed natural variability as reflected in some very long inst
Fläskebo is the first landfill in Sweden to be constructed entirely according to the national implementation of the European landfilling directive. It has only received waste with total organic carbon content below 10 %. The leachate of Fläskebo has been studied and compared to that from other Swedish landfills with the aid of multivariate data analyses and geochemical modelling. Concentrations of
A frequency synthesizer applied to 1000Base-T Ethernet transceiver as well as 10/100Base-T mode is described. A dynamic voltage-mode phase interpolator is used and a more precise analysis and calculation on degressive interpolating resistors are given. The design not only meets the transmitter's requirement of very accurate rising (falling) edge control but also offers much finer time-interval clo
När skottskogsbruket/stubbskottsängsbruket upphörde i början av 1800-talet försvann även landskapet som humlesugan, Betonica officinalis L., var anpassad till. Från att ha varit allmän på sydvästra Lolland och i västra Mellanskåne blev den mycket sällsynt inom dessa kärnområden i humlesugans tidigare utbred- ning i Skandinavien. Ändå lyckades den överleva på sju lokaler. För att bevara dessa krävsWhen coppice forestry and the use of wooded meadows ceased in the early 19th century, the landscape to which Betony, Betonica officinalis L., was adapted also disappeared. From being common in southwestern Lolland and in western MidSkåne, it became very rare in these core areas of Betony’s earlier distribution in Scandi navia. However, the species has managed to survive at seven localities and t
The association between obesity and psychological stress is ambiguous. The aim is to investigate the association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and body mass index (BMI), respectively, with occupational stress among Japanese office workers. The study is a secondary analysis of the intervention group from a randomized controlled trial. There are 167 participants included in the analysis. Occupat
Purpose: The Oriatron eRT6 is an experimental high dose-per-pulse linear accelerator (linac) which was designed to deliver an electron beam with variable dose-rates, ranging from a few Gy/min up to hundreds of Gy/s. It was built to study the radiobiological effects of high dose-per-pulse/dose-rate electron beam irradiation, in the context of preclinical and cognitive studies. In this work, we repo
Semiconductor nanowires in wrapped, gate-all-around transistor geometry are highly favorable for future electronics. The advanced nanodevice processing results in strain due to the deposited dielectric and metal layers surrounding the nanowires, significantly affecting their performance. Therefore, non-destructive nanoscale characterization of complete devices is of utmost importance due to the sm
We measure and analyze discriminatory behavior against same-sex couples trying to rent an apartment in Portugal and pay special attention to the role of religiosity. This is the first correspondence field experiment investigating discrimination against this minority group in Portugal, and the first one to highlight religion as a factor of importance. In our experiment, four type of applicants vary
A new approach to understanding the interaction between cortical areas is provided by a mathematical analysis of biased competition, which describes many interactions between cortical areas, including those involved in top-down attention. The analysis helps to elucidate the principles of operation of such cortical systems, and in particular the parameter values within which biased competition oper
The antiproton experiment PANDA at FAIR is designed to bring hadron physics to a new level in terms of scope, precision and accuracy. In this work, its unique capability for studies of hyperons is outlined. We discuss ground-state hyperons as diagnostic tools to study non-perturbative aspects of the strong interaction, and fundamental symmetries. New simulation studies have been carried out for tw
Hur kan vi skapa ett hållbart arbetsliv där individer mår bra, kan, vill och orkar befinna sig? Hur kan arbetsgivare, organisationer, företag ta till vara på det humankapital som individer utgör? Hur kan hälsa, inklusion, motivation, kunskap och kompetens värnas och utvecklas genom hela arbetslivet? I ett framtidsperspektiv kommer efterfrågan på arbetskraft som kan och vill arbeta till en högre ålHur kan vi skapa ett hållbart arbetsliv där individer mår bra, kan, vill och orkar befinna sig? Hur kan arbetsgivare, organisationer, företag ta till vara på det humankapital som individer utgör? Hur kan hälsa, inklusion, motivation, kunskap och kompetens värnas och utvecklas genom hela arbetslivet? I ett framtidsperspektiv kommer efterfrågan på arbetskraft som kan och vill arbeta till en högre ål
Magnetic fields play a key role in driving a broad range of dynamic phenomena in the atmospheres of the Sun and other stars. Routine and accurate measurements of the magnetic fields at all the atmospheric layers are of critical importance to understand these magnetic activities, but in the solar and stellar coronae such a measurement is still a challenge due to the weak field strength and the high
Recent work of the authors and their collaborators has uncovered fundamental connections between the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, the spectral flow of a certain family of self-adjoint operators, and the nodal deficiency of a Laplacian eigenfunction (or an analogous deficiency associated to a non-bipartite equipartition). Using a refined construction of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, we strengthen all
