OBJECTIVE To explore the association between disability and sick leave due to lumbopelvic pain in pregnant women in 3 cohorts in Sweden and Norway and to explore possible factors of importance to sick leave. A further aim was to compare the prevalence of sick leave due to lumbopelvic pain. DESIGN/SUBJECTS Pregnant women (n = 898) from two cohorts in Sweden and one in Norway answered to questi...

We have previously demonstrated that growth of embryonic chick atrial cells in medium supplemented with lipoprotein-depleted serum (LPDS) resulted in a coordinate increase in the expression of genes involved in the parasympathetic response of the heart (the M2 muscarinic receptor; the alpha-subunit of the heterotrimeric G protein, Galpha(i2); and the inward rectifying K+ channel protein, GIRK1)...

The oligomerization of UGTs [UDP (uridine diphosphate)-glucuronosyltransferases] modulates their enzyme activities. Recent findings also indicate that glucuronidation is negatively regulated by the formation of inactive oligomeric complexes between UGT1A enzymes [i1 (isoform 1)] and an enzymatically inactive alternatively spliced i2 (isoform 2). In the present paper, we assessed whether deletio...

The transition period for a dairy cow is from 3 to 2 wk prepartum until 2 to 3 wk postpartum. The term transition is to underscore the important physiological, metabolic, and nutritional changes occurring in this time frame. It constitutes a turning point in the productive cycle of the cow from one lactation to the next. The manner in which these changes occur and how they are managed are of gr...

Given two covar iance matrices R and S for a given elliptically con toured distribution, we show how simple inequalities between the matr ix elements imply that ER(f)< Es(f), e.g., when x = (xil,i ...... i,) is a mult i index vector and f ( x ) = rain max rain max. . .xi l ..... i,, i l i2 i3 or f(x) is the indicator funct ion of sets such as (3 U N U...rx, ...... ~._-<;o, ..... ,~ i l i2 i3

We discuss the two-loop integrals necessary for evaluating massless 2 → 2 scattering amplitudes. As a test process, we consider the leading colour two-loop contribution to q ¯ q → q ′ ¯ q ′. We show that for physical scattering processes the two Smirnov-Veretin planar box graphs I1 and I2 are accompanied by factors of 1/(D − 4) thereby necessitating a knowledge of both I1 and I2 to O(ǫ). Using ...

A series of ionic liquids (ILs) were investigated for removal and storage of radioactive iodine (I2) waste released by nuclear power plants. The I2 removal efficiency of ILs was dependent upon the anion species while cation species seemed to have little influence. Particularly, the I2 removal efficiency of [Bmim][Br] was higher than 96% in 5 hours. The nitrogen gas sweeping tests showed that [B...

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