BACKGROUND Novel, biocompatible peritoneal dialysis (PD) solutions have become available in recent years. In 2001, low glucose degradation products (GDP), neutral pH solutions became commercially available in Korea. To date, there are no reports regarding the large scale adoption of these solutions in clinical practice and regarding what, if any, impact these solutions have on patient outcomes....

El debate sobre la denominada gestación subrogada está arreciando en España de la mano de una campaña política a favor de su regulación. En 2016, en Suecia, sin embargo, se avanzó hacia la prohibición de la gestación subrogada1. No se admite la versión comercial, el modelo californiano2, que es la que responde al boom del turismo reproductivo –una forma de outsourcing a países empobrecidos–, pe...

Wendel for helpful comments on the ms., Anna Goebel for discussions of patterns of sequence evolution, and D. Swofford for permission to use the test version of PAUP*. One of the advantages frequently cited for the use of DNA sequence data in phylogeny reconstruction is that explicit models of character evolution, based on our understanding of sequence evolution, may be incorporated into the an...

Formation of tooth enamel is a very complex process in which a specific set of proteins secreted by ameloblasts play a primordial role. As part of a screening procedure to identify novel proteins secreted by EO (enamel organ) cells of rat incisors, we isolated a partial cDNA fragment (EO-017) that is the homologue of the recently described mouse Amtn (amelotin) gene [Iwasaki, Bajenova, Somogyi-...

Polyploid organisms contain a number of chromosomes that is some multiple of x (basic chromosome number) greater than the 2 x content of related diploid species. Winkler (1916) introduced the term in a study of vegetative grafts in Solanum, when he discovered tetraploid plants regenerated from callus tissue on cut stems of diploid S. nigrum . Winge (1917) observed that interspecific hybrids giv...

This paper addresses the issue of how to approach gathering sensitive data in less-than-ideal circumstances. We discuss the challenges presented in gathering data about drug use and drug market participation among arrestees, and will suggest strategies to overcome these challenges. Themes include the importance of participants' understanding that the research is not part of their individual cri...

1. Tue 26 July, 9-9:30 Marcia Fampa, COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Modeling the Euclidean Steiner Tree problem In the Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem, the goal is to find a network of minimum length interconnecting a set P of given points in the n-dimensional Euclidean space. Such networks may be represented by a tree T , where the set of nodes is given by the points in P ,...

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guidance and valuable scientific support during the last years, for her never ending confidence in my work and for reading my manuscripts. I thank Prof. Dr. Albrecht Wendel for welcoming me into the group, for his interest in my project and for his commitment to the " Graduiertenkolleg IRTG 1331 ". I would like to express my gratitude to the members of my thesis committee, PD Dr. for lending me...