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  • 1
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    Electronic Resource
    Woodbury, NY : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    Applied Physics Letters 70 (1997), S. 931-933 
    ISSN: 1077-3118
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Stimulated emission at 5.1 μm was demonstrated from a broad area In1−xAlxSb/InSb heterostructure diode laser grown by molecular beam epitaxy. For a 5 μs pulse and a 500 Hz repetition rate the threshold current density was 1480 A cm−2 at 77 K and the maximum operating temperature was 90 K at a current density of 2680 A cm−2. Maximum peak power output was estimated to be 28 mW per facet at 77 K and 4500 A cm−2.
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  • 2
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Child 22 (1996), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2214
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine , Psychology
    Notes: Summary This study was set up to compare the frequency of health, educational and behavioural problems in a geographically defined birth cohort of 7-year-old children grouped by weight at birth. The study design was based on a multi-stage postal survey, with sampling stratified by birthweight. It took place in the four counties of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Northamptonshire which make up the former Oxford region. We studied 1319 live births to women resident in the former Oxford region in1985, including all those with birthweights under 1500 g, or whose weight was not recorded, and a sample of those who weighed 1500–2499 g, and of those who weighed 2500 g or more at birth. The children in the sample were traced through the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) and self-administered questionnaires were sent to their parents, general practitioners (GP) and teachers. Of the 1169 children who were alive at the age of 7 years and were successfully traced, 805 (75%) were followed up by postal survey. The use of health services, and of additional educational support was higher, and school performance was poorer among children who had weighed less than 1500 g at birth than among children who had weighed 2500 g or more, with the rates for children who had weighed 1500–2499 g falling in between. This survey method identifies the higher rate of health and educational problems in children weighing under 2500 g at birth, particularly those with birthweight under 1500 g, compared with other children. The method could be developed to provide a way of monitoring any changes over time in the prevalence of these problems. This information can be used to assess the health and educational needs of 7-year-old children in the population.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1365-3083
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Contradictory reports regarding the ability of complement receptor type 2 (CR2,CD21) on normal B cells to activate complement (C′) via the alternative pathway (AP), prompted us to compare the performance of human peripheral blood B cells and the Epstein–Barr virus-positive Burkitt's lymphoma cell line, Raji (a well characterized AP activator) by using flow cytometry. Measured in terms of the membrane deposition of C3 fragments per cell, Raji cells were significantly (6- to 26-fold) more effective as complement activators than were normal B cells. Raji cells were also found to express approximately four to five times as many CR2 as normal B cells. In addition, they distinguished themselves by displaying a greater Ca2+-dependent activation, with pooled normal human sera (NHS) as the complement source, and by degrading unprotected C3b fragments from iC3b to C3dg/C3d at a significantly lower rate than the B cells. The Ca2+ dependency of Raji cell activation was found to be partially a result of classical pathway (CP) triggering by specific antibodies in the NHS, although other triggering mechanisms may also be involved. If the influence of these variations between Raji cells and normal B cells was excluded, by relating deposition of anti-C3d-reactive fragments, during AP activation, to the number of CR2 expressed, the difference in performance between the two cell types was found to be insignificant.
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  • 4
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Journal of oral rehabilitation 24 (1997), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2842
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: summary The aim of this study was to determine the average sagittal condylar inclination angles of dentate subjects using a mandibular facebow with pencil tracing styli, to relate these angles to values assigned to articulators, and to assess the repeatability accuracy of drawing a tangent to a traced curve. The right and left sagittal condylar inclination angles of 103 subjects were recorded using a mandibular facebow with pencil tracing styli which marked a graph card during protrusive excursions. Tangents to the tracings were measured with a protractor allowing assessment of reproducibility. The mean left and right sagittal condylar inclination angles were 32° and 31.5°, respectively, with no significant differences (P=0.609). Individual right and left measurements within each group showed significant differences (P= 0.0000). The mean of the tangents drawn through three sagittal condylar angle tracings by 10 operators was 33.3°, and the mean of 10 tangents drawn through the same three tracings by one of the authors was 32.9°, with no significant difference (P= 0.634). The average sagittal condylar inclination angles found in this study are in agreement with those reported in the literature. In fixed sagittal condylar angle articulators 30° appear to be an appropriate setting. The reproducibility of this method of recording sagittal condylar inclination angles was found to be accurate for the individual operator and between operators.
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  • 5
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    Electronic Resource
    Copenhagen : International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
    Acta crystallographica 53 (1997), S. 105-107 
    ISSN: 1399-0047
    Source: Crystallography Journals Online : IUCR Backfile Archive 1948-2001
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: Recombinant rhamnogalacturonase A from Aspergillus aculeatus has been crystallized and X-ray diffraction data has been collected. Crystals were grown by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion technique, under the conditions 10% PEG 8000, 0.05 M KH2PO4 and 0.1 M sodium acetate buffered at pH 3.5. The crystals diffract beyond 2.0 Å resolution and belong to one of the orthorhombic space groups I212121 or I222, with the unit-cell parameters a = 62.9, b = 125.4 and c = 137.0 Å. There is one molecule in the asymmetric unit and a solvent content of approximately 54%. The enzyme is highly glycosylated corresponding to 5.9 kDa.
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  • 6
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    Electronic Resource
    Copenhagen : International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
    Acta crystallographica 53 (1997), S. 311-315 
    ISSN: 1399-0047
    Source: Crystallography Journals Online : IUCR Backfile Archive 1948-2001
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: The first crystal structure of an active autolysate form of porcine α-trypsin (APT), a two-chain molecule obtained from the limited autolysis of porcine β-trypsin at position Lys145–Ser146, has been determined. APT crystallizes in space group P212121 with one protein molecule in the asymmetric unit. The structure was solved by molecular replacement followed by refinement using X-PLOR to an R factor of 0.200 and an Rfree of 0.285 for 8.0–1.8 Å data with r.m.s deviations from ideal values of 0.01 Å and 1.7° for bond lengths and bond angles, respectively. Comparison with inactive autolysate porcine ε-trypsin (EPT) and porcine β-trypsin in complex with bittergourd trypsin inhibitor (MCT) revealed a small but systematic directional chain shift around the active-site residues from APT to EPT to MCT.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1420-9136
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: Conclusions Several cases of extremely strong quiescences have been investigated in great detail, and it was found that they are statistically highly significant and that they cannot be reasonably explained by catalog heterogeneity. Several additional cases of quantitatively measured quiescence have been documented. The method of measuring quiescence has progressed from using visual means to using a quantitative approach, and the understanding of the noise sources has significantly advanced during the last few years. Therefore I feel that quiescence is a real phenomenon and the method to detect it has matured to a point that is acceptable for the List of Significant Precursors, although considerably more work needs to be done to understand this parameter and its role in the earthquake generation process.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus ; low density lipoprotein oxidation ; low density lipoprotein fatty acids ; lipid peroxidation ; conjugated dienes
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and is related to the fatty acid composition which is altered in diabetes mellitus. This study examines the relationship between the fatty acid composition of LDL and high density lipoprotein (HDL) and lipoprotein oxidation. A group of nine non-insulin-dependent diabetic (NIDDM) patients were compared to seven healthy control subjects before and after a high monounsaturated diet. Lipoproteins were isolated and oxidisability was measured by conjugated diene formation and lipid peroxide analysis. Serum HDL cholesterol was significantly lower in the diabetic patients. LDL cholesteryl ester linoleic acid in the diabetic patients was significantly higher at baseline and decreased after diet (p〈0.05) while oleic acid increased in both diabetic and non-diabetic subjects (p〈0.05). HDL cholesteryl ester oleic acid was lower in the diabetic patients compared with control subjects (p〈0.05) before diet and it increased significantly after diet (p〈0.05). LDL lipid peroxides and conjugated diene formation were related to LDL glycation (r=0.46, p〈0.05 and r=0.49, p〈0.05, respectively). Both decreased following diet (lipid peroxides for diabetic patients from 476±30 to 390±20 nmol/mg protein p〈0.05 and for control subjects from 350±36 to 198±30 nmol/mg protein p〈0.05). HDL conjugated diene formation decreased in both groups after diet but only significantly in the control group (55.4±7.5 to 53.2±6.7 nmol/mg protein for diabetic patients and 45.8±6.4 to 31.6±4.8 nmol/mg protein p〈0.05 for control subjects). There was a positive correlation between LDL lipid peroxide formation and percentage of cholesteryl ester linoleic acid in LDL from diabetic patients (r=0.61, p〈0.05) and control subjects (r=0.91, p〈0.01). Fatty acid composition of LDL was reflected in the composition of HDL. In the presence of HDL lipoprotein peroxidation decreased. This decrease in lipoprotein peroxidation was positively related to the percentage of linoleic acid in LDL (r=0.71, p〈0.05). This study confirms the close relationship between the fatty acid composition of LDL and HDL and demonstrates the importance of the fatty acid composition of the cholesteryl ester fraction in relation to LDL oxidation in diabetes. Linoleic acid in HDL appears to be a protecting factor against oxidation.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Keywords Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus ; low density lipoprotein oxidation ; low density lipoprotein fatty acids ; lipid peroxidation ; conjugated dienes.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and is related to the fatty acid composition which is altered in diabetes mellitus. This study examines the relationship between the fatty acid composition of LDL and high density lipoprotein (HDL) and lipoprotein oxidation. A group of nine non-insulin-dependent diabetic (NIDDM) patients were compared to seven healthy control subjects before and after a high monounsaturated diet. Lipoproteins were isolated and oxidisability was measured by conjugated diene formation and lipid peroxide analysis. Serum HDL cholesterol was significantly lower in the diabetic patients. LDL cholesteryl ester linoleic acid in the diabetic patients was significantly higher at baseline and decreased after diet (p 〈 0.05) while oleic acid increased in both diabetic and non-diabetic subjects (p 〈 0.05). HDL cholesteryl ester oleic acid was lower in the diabetic patients compared with control subjects (p 〈 0.05) before diet and it increased significantly after diet (p 〈 0.05). LDL lipid peroxides and conjugated diene formation were related to LDL glycation (r = 0.46, p 〈 0.05 and r = 0.49, p 〈 0.05, respectively). Both decreased following diet (lipid peroxides for diabetic patients from 476 ± 30 to 390 ± 20 nmol/mg protein p 〈 0.05 and for control subjects from 350 ± 36 to 198 ± 30 nmol/mg protein p 〈 0.05). HDL conjugated diene formation decreased in both groups after diet but only significantly in the control group (55.4 ± 7.5 to 53.2 ± 6.7 nmol/mg protein for diabetic patients and 45.8 ± 6.4 to 31.6 ± 4.8 nmol/mg protein p 〈 0.05 for control subjects). There was a positive correlation between LDL lipid peroxide formation and percentage of cholesteryl ester linoleic acid in LDL from diabetic patients (r = 0.61, p 〈 0.05) and control subjects (r = 0.91, p 〈 0.01). Fatty acid composition of LDL was reflected in the composition of HDL. In the presence of HDL lipoprotein peroxidation decreased. This decrease in lipoprotein peroxidation was positively related to the percentage of linoleic acid in LDL (r = 0.71, p 〈 0.05). This study confirms the close relationship between the fatty acid composition of LDL and HDL and demonstrates the importance of the fatty acid composition of the cholesteryl ester fraction in relation to LDL oxidation in diabetes. Linoleic acid in HDL appears to be a protecting factor against oxidation. [Diabetologia (1996) 39: 667–676]
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  • 10
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Computational mechanics 18 (1996), S. 397-412 
    ISSN: 1432-0924
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
    Notes: Abstract Flow simulation is a computational tool for exploring science and technology involving flow applications. It can provide cost-effective alternatives or complements to laboratory experiments, field tests and prototyping. Flow simulation relies heavily on high performance computing (HPC). We view HPC as having two major components. One is advanced algorithms capable of accurately simulating complex, real-world problems. The other is advanced computer hardware and networking with sufficient power, memory and bandwidth to execute those simulations. While HPC enables flow simulation, flow simulation motivates development of novel HPC techniques. This paper focuses on demonstrating that flow simulation has come a long way and is being applied to many complex, real-world problems in different fields of engineering and applied sciences, particularly in aerospace engineering and applied fluid mechanics. Flow simulation has come a long way because HPC has come a long way. This paper also provides a brief review of some of the recently-developed HPC methods and tools that has played a major role in bringing flow simulation where it is today. A number of 3D flow simulations are presented in this paper as examples of the level of computational capability reached with recent HPC methods and hardware. These examples are, flow around a fighter aircraft, flow around two trains passing in a tunnel, large ram-air parachutes, flow over hydraulic structures, contaminant dispersion in a model subway station, airflow past an automobile, multiple spheres falling in a liquid-filled tube, and dynamics of a paratrooper jumping from a cargo aircraft.
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