Traditional strict separation of fungi into ecological niches as mutualist, parasite or saprotroph is increasingly called into question. Sequences of assumed saprotrophs have been amplified from plant root interiors, and several saprotrophic genera can invade and interact with host plants in laboratory growth experiments. However, it is uncertain if root invasion by saprotrophic fungi is a widespr

Background: Antioxidants in medical devices, added to protect polymers or adhesives, may also cause contact dermatitis in some individuals. Objectives: To present data on sensitization to 4,4′-thiobis(2-tert-butyl-5-methylphenol), an antioxidant detected in some types of medical devices, for six patients that experienced eczematous reactions to different medical devices. Methods: Patch testing wit

Microglial cells are brain-specific macrophages that swiftly react to disruptive events in the brain. Microglial activation leads to specific modifications, including proliferation, morphological changes, migration to the site of insult, and changes in gene expression profiles. A change in inflammatory status has been linked to many neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzhei

We establish an operator theoretic version of the Wiener–Ikehara Taube-rian theorem and use it to obtain a short proof of the Prime number theorem that should be accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of operator theory and Fourier analysis.

Premise: Besides the beneficial plant-fungus symbiosis in mycorrhizal plants, bacteria also enhance plant fitness via tripartite interactions. While bacterial associations are presumably just as important for the obligate mycorrhizal family Orchidaceae, little is known about orchid associating bacteria (OAB). Methods: We examined the OAB communities of two, congeneric, terrestrial orchids, Platant

We consider a perturbation problem for embedded eigenvalues of a self-adjoint differential operator in L2(R;Rn). In particular, we study the set of all small perturbations in an appropriate Banach space for which the embedded eigenvalue remains embedded in the continuous spectrum. We show that this set of small perturbations forms a smooth manifold and we specify its co-dimension. Our methods invo

Uppfattningarna om hur samhället ska utformas varierar kraftigt mellan olika tidsepoker. Under efterkrigstiden fick idén om att socialtjänsten skulle vara en aktiv aktör i utvecklingen av välfärdsstaten starkt fotfäste bland politiska partier och bland professionella. Det skulle ske genom medverkan i samhällsplaneringen och genom att arbeta strukturinriktat. Men ideal är en sak och verklighet en a

Due to the high variance in response rates concerning anti-PD1 immunotherapy (IT), there is an unmet need to discover innovative biomarkers to predict immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-efficacy. Our study included 62 Caucasian advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with anti-PD1 ICI. Gut bacterial signatures were evaluated by metagenomic sequencing and correlated with p

Utvärdering behövs för att skapa kunskap om vilka interventioner som fungerar på lite längre sikt, för vilka de fungerar och vad som gör att de fungerar. I kapitlet presenteras en så kallad utvärderingscykel som jag illustrerar med ett preventionsprogram som förbättrat barns tandhälsa. Kapitlet tar även upp implementering av resultat från utvärdering och avimplementering av det som kan behöva fasa

This work is primarily a legal commentary on the final appeal judgment of the Supreme People’s Court of China on the Archangelos Gabriel case. In the opinion of the author, the judgment is sound and reasonable and brings to light a measure of judicial activism into the arena of salvage litigation in China. Basically, the apex Court held that the case did not fall within the purview of salvage in t

The original chapter on adaptive-filter models addressed the issue of how far such models were consistent with experimental evidence. Here we consider one particularly important kind of evidence, that concerning the nature of the synaptic plasticity that underlies cerebellar learning. The basic decorrelation learning rule employed by the adaptive-filter model can be translated into spike timing-de

The development of treatment planning methods in radiation therapy requires dose calculation methods that are both accurate and general enough to provide a dose per unit monitor setting for a broad variety of fields and beam modifiers. The purpose of this work was to develop models for calculation of scatter and transmission for photon beam attenuators such as compensating filters, wedges, and blo

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A chemical kinetics model for calculation of the formation of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) has been made. The combustion of a mixture of methylamine and ethylene has been modelled using the stationary laminar flamelet concept. The flamelet calculations are based on several thousand elementary reaction steps including the chemical kinetics of HCN in combustion. The flamelets for both cold (293 K) and hot

BACKGROUND: Peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPCs) can be collected on various cell separators. Two leukapheresis programs (LP-MNC and LP-PBSC-Lym) were evaluated for computerized collection of PBPCs on a new cell separator. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Leukapheresis assisted by the LP-MNC or LP-PBSC-Lym software was performed for the harvesting of PBPCs in 52 oncology patients after chemotherapy

This report contains papers presented at a Research Seminar , or rather "workshop", organised by our Department. It is the third in a series. The previous seminars were held in 1993 and 19961• The seminar is "Nordic", by which is meant that the speakers came from the Scandinavian countries -Demnark, Norway, Sweden- and Finland. Certainly there are other Nordic countries in which frost is a real pr