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- Enlund, Nils, 1946-, et al.
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The early days of computer aided newspaper productions systems
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Ingår i: History of Nordic Computing 2. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 9783642037566 - 9783642037573 ; , s. 238-249
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the years 1970-1973, the Laboratory of Information Processing Science at the Helsinki Uni versity of Technology carried out the Computer Graph ics Pro ject (CGP). The activities foc us ed on the problems of producing news paper text, ad vert isements, and com plete pages using inter act ive computer graphics. The project and its commercial spin-off, Typlan, as well as the BUNPAPS continuation project 1973-1975, cre ated a num ber of innovative, pioneering solutions for computer aided news pap er production, laying the found at ion for the digitalization of media production.
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- Gustafsson, Mats, et al.
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Sum rules and physical bounds in electromagnetic theory
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Ingår i: [Host publication title missing]. ; , s. 37-40
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sum rules are useful in many branches of physics and engineering as they relate all spectrum parameter values with their asymptotic expansions. Properties of the dynamic response can hence be inferred by the, in many cases much simpler, static response. This has e.g., been used for lossless matching networks, radar absorbers, extinction cross section, partial realized gain of antennas, high-impedance surfaces, transmission cross section, transmission coefficients, and temporal dispersion of metamaterials. Here, several sum rules and their associated physical bounds are reviewed and it is shown that integral identities for Herglotz functions offer a unified approach in deriving them.
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- Olbers, Torsten, 1964, et al.
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Body composition, dietary intake, and energy expenditure after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty: a randomized clinical trial.
- 2006
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Ingår i: Annals of surgery. - : Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). - 0003-4932. ; 244:5, s. 715-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To assess body composition, eating pattern, and basal metabolic rate in patients undergoing obesity surgery in a randomized trial. INTRODUCTION: There is limited knowledge regarding how different bariatric surgical techniques function in terms of altering body composition, dietary intake, and basic metabolic rate. METHODS: Non-superobese patients were randomized to laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LGBP, n = 37) or laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty (LVBG, n = 46). Anthropometry, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), computed tomography (CT), indirect calorimetry, and reported dietary intake were registered prior to and 1 year after surgery. RESULTS: Follow-up rate was 97.6%. LGBP patients had significantly greater reduction of waist circumference and sagittal diameter compared with LVBG. DEXA demonstrated a larger reduction of body fat in all compartments after LGBP, especially at the trunk (P<0.001). CT demonstrated more reduction of the visceral fat (P=0.016). Patients were able to eat all types of food after LGBP, although about 30% claimed they avoided fats. LGBP patients decreased their proportion of dietary fat significantly more than those operated on with LVBG (P = 0.005), who consumed more sweet foods and avoided whole meat and vegetables. Lean tissue mass (LTM) was proportionally less reduced, especially in men, after LGBP. The decreases in BMR postoperatively reflected the lower body mass in a pattern that did not differ among the groups. CONCLUSION: LGBP patients demonstrated better outcomes compared with LVBG patients in terms of body composition. Energy expenditure developed as expected postoperatively. A "steering" away from fatty foods after LGBP may be an important mechanism of action in gastric bypass.
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- Ryde, Ulf, et al.
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Relative Ligand-Binding Free Energies Calculated from Multiple Short QM/MM MD Simulations
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Ingår i: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1549-9618 .- 1549-9626. ; 14, s. 3228-3228
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have devised a new efficient approach tocompute combined quantum mechanical (QM) and molecularmechanical (MM, i.e. QM/MM) ligand-binding relative freeenergies. Our method employs the reference-potentialapproach with free-energy perturbation both at the MMlevel (between the two ligands) and from MM to QM/MM(for each ligand). To ensure that converged results areobtained for the MM → QM/MM perturbations, explicitQM/MM molecular dynamics (MD) simulations areperformed with two intermediate mixed states. To speed up the calculations, we utilize the fact that the phase space can be extensively sampled at the MM level. Therefore, we run many short QM/MM MD simulations started from snapshots of the MM simulations, instead of a single long simulation. As a test case, we study the binding of nine cyclic carboxylate ligands to the octa-acid deep cavitand. Only the ligand is in the QM system, treated with the semiempirical PM6-DH+ method. We show that for eight of the ligands, we obtain well converged results with short MD simulations (1−15 ps). However, in one case, the convergence is slower (∼50 ps) owing to a mismatch between the conformational preferences of the MM and QM/MM potentials. We test the effect of initial minimization, the need of equilibration, and how many independent simulations are needed to reach a certain precision. The results show that the present approach is about four times faster than using standard MM → QM/MM free-energy perturbations with the same accuracy and precision.
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- Warshan, Denis, 1988-
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Cyanobacteria in symbiosis with boreal forest feathermosses : from genome evolution and gene regulation to impact on the ecosystem
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Among dinitrogen (N2)-fixing some cyanobacteria can establish symbiosis with a broad range of host plants from all plant lineages including bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. In the boreal forests, the symbiosis between epiphytic cyanobacteria and feathermosses Hylocomium splendens and Pleurozium schreberi is ecologically important. The main input of biological N to the boreal forests is through these cyanobacteria, and thus, they greatly contribute to the productivity of this ecosystem. Despite the ecological relevance of the feathermoss symbiosis, our knowledge about the establishment and maintenance of cyanobacterial-plant partnerships in general is limited, and particularly our understanding of the feathermoss symbiosis is rudimentary.The first aim of this thesis was to gain insight on the genomic rearrangements that enabled cyanobacteria to form a symbiosis with feathermosses, and their genomic diversity and similarities with other plant-symbiotic cyanobacteria partnerships. Genomic comparison of the feathermoss isolates with the genomes of free-living cyanobacteria highlighted that functions such as chemotaxis and motility, the transport and metabolism of organic sulfur, and the uptake of phosphate and amino acids were enriched in the genome of plant-symbiotic cyanobacteria.The second aim of this PhD study was to identify cyanobacterial molecular pathways involved in forming the feathermoss symbiosis and the regulatory rewiring needed to maintain it. Global transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation in cyanobacteria during the early phase of establishment of the feathermoss symbiosis, and after colonization of the moss were investigated. The results revealed that the putative symbiotic gene repertoire includes pathways never before associated with cyanobacteria-plant symbioses, such as nitric-oxide sensing and regulation, and the transport and metabolism of aliphatic sulfonate.The third aim was to explore the role of the cyanobacterial community in contributing to the temporal variability of N2-fixation activity. Results from a field-study showed that temporal variation in N2-fixation rates could be explained to a high degree by changes in cyanobacterial community composition and activity. In particular, the cyanobacteria belonging to the genus Stigonema - although not dominating the community- appeared to be the main contributors to the N2-fixation activities. Based on this result, it is suggested that this genus is responsible for the main input of N in the boreal forest ecosystems.The last aim was to understand how the relationship between cyanobacterial community composition and N2-fixation activity will be affected by climatic changes such as, increased temperature (11oC compared to 19oC) and CO2 level (500 ppm compared to 1000 ppm). Laboratory experiments highlighted that 30 weeks of combined elevation of temperature and CO2 resulted in increased N2-fixation activity and moss growth rates. The observed increases were suggested to be allocated to reduced cyanobacterial diversity and changes in community composition, resulting in the dominance of cyanobacteria adapted to the future abiotic condition.
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