.................................................................................................... II STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY ......................................................................... III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................... IV TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................

J. THE CONTEXT: A SHORT HISTORY OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICY AND LAW ...................................... ...... ........................ .. ..... .493 II. MISMATCH, EFFICIENCY, AND MERITOCRACy .................................... .497 III. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND MiSMATCH ............................. .. .... .............. ... .499 IV. METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ... .... ............ ..... ...

OF THE DISSERTATION ...................................................................... II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................... IV TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................ V LIST OF TABLES ..............................................................

..............................................................................................................................................V DANSK SAMMENDRAG .....................................................................................................................VII TABLE OF CONTENTS.....................................................................................................

Deoxygenation of a secondary hydroxy group on β-cyclodextrin was conducted to prepare the title compound 2II-VII, 3I-VII, 6I-VII-icosa-O-acetyl-2I-deoxy-cyclomaltoheptaose. The synthetic procedure comprised a two-step reaction—phenoxythiocarbonylation and Barton-McCombie deoxygenation. The synthesized compound was characterized by 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, HRMS, and elemental analysis.

Objective(s): Epidermolysis bullosa is one of the most important series of mechano-bullous heritable skin disorders which is categorized into four major types according to the layer that bullae forms within basement membrane zone. In dystrophic form of the disease, blisters are made in the sublamina densa zone, at the level of type VII collagen protein which produce anchoring fibrils. Type VII ...

Several murine monoclonal anti-human Factor VII antibodies were produced using hybridoma technology. Two noncompetitive monoclonal antibodies were used to examine by Western blotting the Factor VII cross-reactive material (CRM) in normal human plasma and three commercially available congenitally Factor VIIdeficient plasmas, and to construct a facile "sandwich" immunoassay for plasma Factor VII....

Factor IX concentrates were evaluated for their factor VII content and for the presence of activated factor VII through use of a coupled amidolytic assay insensitive to activated factor VII and a clotting assay sensitive to activated factor VII. The factor VII content of the concentrates studied (except for one concentrate purposely produced to exclude factor VII) varied between 33 and 621 U/vi...

........................................................................................................................................ III POPULÄRVETENSKAPLIG SAMMANFATTNING ..................................................................... V ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................................... VII LIST OF PAPERS ....