OBJECTIVE The proteoglycan decorin stabilizes collagen whereas biglycan and hyaluronan disrupt well-organized collagen. The aim was to compare hyaluronan and proteoglycans in human fetal membranes obtained before and after spontaneous labour at term. STUDY DESIGN Prelabour samples of fetal membranes (N=9) were obtained from elective caesarean sections and regionally sampled from over the cerv...

There are several alternatives for how to phase out diesel in heavy-duty transports, thereby reducing the sector’s climate change impact. This paper assesses well-to-wheel (WTW) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of energy carriers vehicles, analyzing effect carbon intensity electricity used production. The results show that with high dependence not necessarily better than from a WTW perspective. I...

BACKGROUND Lone parents in high-income countries have high rates of poverty (including in-work poverty) and poor health. Employment requirements for these parents are increasingly common. 'Welfare-to-work' (WtW) interventions involving financial sanctions and incentives, training, childcare subsidies and lifetime limits on benefit receipt have been used to support or mandate employment among lo...

A number of water treatment works (WTW) in the north of England (UK) have experienced problems in reducing the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) present in the water to a sufficiently low level. The problems are experienced in autumn/winter when the colour increases and the coagulant dose at the WTW needs to be increased in order to achieve sufficient colour removal. However, the DOC content of th...

AVO studies have enjoyed a mixed success rate in predicting the existence of hydrocarbons in sediments. Sometimes AVO predictions are accurate, but other times they can be quite wrong. It seems likely that the success rate might increase if more sophisticated AVO methods could be employed such as full wave inversion. In fact elastic wave equation inversion has been applied to seismic data with ...

Electrified vehicles (xEV), especially the battery electric vehicle (BEV), are burgeoning and growing fast in China, aimed at building a sustainable, carbon-neutral future. This work presents an overview quantitative comparison of fuel options based on well-to-wheel (WTW) analysis. A more intuitionistic figure demonstrates for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions describes sustainability. Electricity...

we used qcd factorization for the hadronic matrix elements to show that the existing data, in particular the branching ratios br ( ?j/?k) and br ( ?j/??), can be accounted for this approach. we analyzed the decay within the framework of qcd factorization. we have complete calculation of the relevant hard-scattering kernels for twist-2 and twist-3. we calculated this decays in a special scale ( ...

Abstract Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ocular biometric parameters in adult cataract patients from China and create an anterior chamber depth (ACD) regression model. Methods records 28,709 right eyes surgery candidates who were treated at Aier Eye Hospitals nine cities 2018 2019 retrospectively analyzed. All measurements taken with IOLMaster 700. We included least 40 ...

We present an empirical analysis of the network formed by the trade relationships between all world countries, or World Trade Web (WTW). Each (directed) link is weighted by the amount of wealth flowing between two countries, and each country is characterized by the value of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By analysing a set of year-by-year data covering the time interval 1950–2000, we show th...