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On the Ethics of Anthropogenic Changes and Challenges: “Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene” edited by Bernice Bovenkerk and Josef Keulartz
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77-jährige Frau mit Kollapsneigung nach Routine‑Koloskopie
In diesem Beitrag wird über eine 77-jährige Frau berichtet, die nach einer ambulant durchgeführten Koloskopie über eine anhaltende orthostatische Kollapsneigung klagte. Bei der stationären Aufnahme bestand ein...
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Visit-to-visit and 24-h blood pressure variability: association with endothelial and smooth muscle function in African Americans
The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of visit-to-visit and 24-h blood pressure (BP) variability with markers of endothelial injury and vascular function. We recruited 72 African America...
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Vethics: professional ethics for veterinary officers
In 2012, the project ‘Vethics – Professional Ethics for Vets’ has been launched at the Messerli Research Institute. This project is funded by the Austrian Ministry of Health and aims at encouraging and support...
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Leaving the ivory tower or back into theory? Learning from paradigm cases in animal ethics
Ethical issues are per definition issues of public concern and interest. Media plays a vital role in presenting and sha** them. From the beginnings of modern animal ethics, paradigm cases – e.g. factory farm...
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Resistless Patterning of Magnetic Storage Media Using Ion Projection Structuring
Co/Pt thin film multilayers with strong perpendicular anisotropy and out-of-plane coercivities of 5-11 kOe were magnetically altered in areas of local ion beam interaction. The ion irradiations were performed ...
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Does a fish-oil-containing lipid emulsion improve liver function in comparison with a soybean oil lipid emulsion?
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Dipolar interaction in (NH3.6D0.4)2PtCl6
At 10% deuteration ammonium hexachloroplatinate stays in its cubic phase Fm3m at all temperatures. Rotational tunneling of NH4 and NH3D was measured by neutron spectroscopy. At temperatures T≥18 K, energies and i...
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Relaxational dynamics in dry and humid DNA
The influence of hydration on the self-correlation of DNA-hydrogens has been measured by using inelastic neutron scattering. The range of GHz to THz could be covered by combining back-scattering and time-of-fl...
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Probing Electron Transfer in DNA – New Life Science with Muons
Using the method of labelled electrons with muons which was first applied to conducting polymers and recently extended to representative electron-transfer proteins, electron transfer phenomena in DNA were succ...
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Slow Relaxation Process in DNA
A dynamic transition at temperatures ∼200–230K is observed in manyhydrated bio-polymers. It shows up as a sharp increase of the mean-squaredatomic displacements above this temperature range. We present neutron...
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Immunonutrition – supplementary amino acids and fatty acids ameliorate immune deficiency in critically ill patients
Background: Immunonutrition with ω-3 fatty acids and the "conditionally essential" amino acids arginine, glutamine, cysteine, and taurine can enhance the immune response in critically il...
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Clinical Relevance of CagA-specific Antibodies Related to CagA Status of Heliobacter pylori Isolates Using Immunofluorescence Test and PCR
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Slow relaxation process in DNA at different levels of hydration
There are many speculations about the dynamic transition observed in hydrated bio-polymers at temperatures T ∼ 200 – 230 K being an important factor for enabling of their functions. The transition shows up as ...
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Microscopic Techniques for Characterization of Magnetic Layers
In recent years increasing interest in magnetic materials especially amorphous and nano crystalline layers has arised. Due to the magnetostrictive and magnetoresistive properties magnetic materials obtained hi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Endoskopische Therapie großer kolorektaler Polypen
The aim of this study was to find out the possibilities and risks of endoscopic snare removal of colorectal polyps larger than 3 cm. Eighty-five patients with 65 sessile and 20 pedunculated polyps were include...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Entwicklung einer immunneutralen Lipidemulsion zur optimalen postoperativen Therapie intensivmedizinischer Patienten
Lipid emulsions prolong the rejection of allogeneic rat heart grafts in relation to their n-3 to n-6 fatty acid ratio. Because of the predominance of n-6 fatty acids soybean oil, which is clinically applied, s...
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Technique of Plasmapheresis in the Xenogeneic Rat Model
In the guinea pig-to-rat xenotransplant model, hyperacute rejection is completed within several minutes. Preexisting rat xenoantibodies binding to guinea pig endothelial cell glycoproteins serve to anchor the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Oesophaguskarzinom: Die Leitlinien der chirurgischen Therapie
According to oncological criteria, resections for esophageal cancer require a combined abdominal and thoracic approach and should include two-field lymphadenectomy. The value of a three-field lymphadenectomy i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Die Wertigkeit der präoperativen Diagnostik in der Strumachirurgie
To determine the usefulness of so-called routine diagnostic procedures prior to thyroid Operations, in 2007 consecutive patients undergoing thyroid surgery from 1976 until 1991, the results of 1833 scintigraph...
