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In spite of the importance of legumes in Latin American diets, nutritional features of carbohydrates in these seeds are scarcely known. The purpose of this study was to assess the in vitro digestibility of starch in cooked powdered black beans, a common type of product in Mexico and Central America. The properties of a commercial product were compared to those of an experimental material obtained
Purpose: To investigate whether increased fluctuation of intraocular pressure (IOP) is an independent factor for glaucoma progression. Design: A cohort of patients was followed up in a randomized clinical trial. Participants: Two hundred fifty-five glaucoma patients from the Early Manifest Glaucoma Trial (EMGT; 129 treated and 126 control patients). Methods: Study visits, conducted every 3 months,
Occlusion is the most common reason for lowered recognition yield in free-flow license-plate reading systems. (Non-)occluded characters can readily be learned in separate neural networks but not together. Even a small proportion of occluded characters in the training set will already significantly reduce the overall recognition yield. This paper shows that a modular network can handle a realistic
Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are compounds composed entirely of ions, which are liquid at temperatures below 100 degrees Celsius. Their high ionic strength and strong coupling make them useful for a number of applications, e.g. as electrolytes in supercapacitors. These properties also make them interesting subjects for theoretical research, as the canonical theories of the electrical dou
The genus Aerococcus comprises eight species of Gram-positive cocci. The incidence and the clinical importance of aerococcal infections have been underestimated in the past, due to species identification difficulties. In our first study, we evaluated the usefulness of MALDI-TOF MS as a species identification method for aerococci and found that it had a high sensitivity and specificity. Two populat
The aim of this project was to examine how S100A9 binding to target molecules was affected by structural modifications with oxidizing agent in vitro. S100A9 was cultivated, purified and oxidative modifications were induced. The oxidative modifications where characterized with tryptohan fluorescence, Surface Plasmon Resonance technique (SPR) and MALDITOF-MS. To get access to protein to study recomb
Financial capital is currently being heralded for its potential to provide social and environmental transformations. This paper provides an in-depth case study of the Seychelles Blue Bond, highlighting the state’s (fiscal and planning) capacities as central in mediating the future rents and value production when channelling thematic bond proceeds. Even as the Blue Bonds tapped into private capital
It is shown that the decay out from superdeformed bands is enhanced by several orders of magnitude due to the onset of chaos in normal deformed states. The onset of chaos is caused by the residual two-body interaction, that plays a crucial role for the normal deformed states at excitation energies where the decay out occurs (3-5 MeV). At these excitation energies the distribution of nearest neighb
Histone chaperones control nucleosome density and chromatin structure. In yeast, the H3-H4 chaperone Spt2 controls histone deposition at active genes but its roles in metazoan chromatin structure and organismal physiology are not known. Here we identify the Caenorhabditis elegans ortholog of SPT2 (CeSPT-2) and show that its ability to bind histones H3-H4 is important for germline development and t
There is a need for high quality evaluation instruments when testing new mobile devices and services. The aim of this study was to describe the development of the MobiHealth Usability Evaluation Questionnaire. It was developed in a step-wise consensus process with close interaction between researchers, technology developers and end-users. The questionnaire ten dimensions: functionality, user inter
This was a double-masked prospective study of the effect on patients with ocular hypertension and other risk factors for glaucomatous damage of intraocular pressure reduction achieved with topical timolol.
