Corresponding author: Ueli Aebi Phone: +41 61 267 2260 Fax: +41 61 267 2109 E-mail: Ueli.Aebi@unibas.ch Rheumatic diseases – the burden of aging During the past century the average life expectancy has increased by nearly 20 years. While this definitely represents an unprecedented achievement, this gain is still on the expense of numerous diseases that are becoming more prominent in the elderly....

Results The incidence of AKI was 15.3% (n = 267) and of these RRT was performed on 69.6 % (n=185). The mortality rate among patients with AKI was 54 (20%) of 267 patients. Preoperative factors causing AKI revealed; angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, prior recent acute myocardial infact (AMI) (< 6 weeks), euroscore. Postoperative factors causing AKI revealed; cardiopulmonary bypass ...

Seeds of 4 cultivars of chickpea (2 desi, CSG 8962 and DCP 92-3, and 2 kabuli, CSG 9651 and BG 267) were grown under 0, 4, 6 and 8 dS m levels of salinity until maturity. Shoot and root dry weights, root shoot ratio and various yield parameters were evaluated under salinity at 40, 70 and 100 days after sowing. Salinity significantly reduced dry matter accumulation in both roots and shoots in al...

Prenatal whole exome sequencing (WES) and genome (WGS) have not been adopted into routine obstetrical practice due to high cost suspected low diagnostic yield. However, the actual yield of these methods in pregnancies with specific prenatal findings is known. The goal this study determine whether types complications are associated actionable postnatal WES/WGS results. This a case control compar...

Experiments were conducted to study the nodular metabolism, in order to draw comparisons between nitrogen fixation, carbon fixation and ammonia assimilation in nodule cytosol of desi (CSG 8962, DCP 92-3) and kabuli (CSG 9651, BG 267) genotypes of chickpea. Maximum acetylene reduction activity (ARA) was observed in CSG 9651 and minimum in DCP 92-3.The specific activity of ammonia assimilating en...

Current research suggests that the crime-combating instrument ”sentence probability” is more effective than ”sentence severity”. However, the focus of the simultaneous (or very short-run) impact of the law enforcement policy on crime impedes a comparison of these two instruments with respect to their long-term effectiveness. With Swiss data, we investigate the dynamic interrelationships between...

We study the interpixel cross talk introduced to digital holographic data storage by use of a multilevel phase mask at the data-input plane. We evaluate numerically the intensity distribution at the output detector for Fourier plane hologram storage in a limited-aperture storage medium. Only the effect at an output pixel of interpixel cross talk from the four horizontal and vertical neighboring...