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Open AccessImprovement of Working Conditions and Opinions of Mine Workers When Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) Are Used Instead of Diesel Machines — Results of Field Trial at the Kittilä Mine, Finland
A major part of the European Union’s (EU) project Sustainable Intelligent Mining System (SIMS) is investigating the development of diesel-free/carbon–neutral underground mines in order to ensure sustainable un...
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Erratum to: Increased and early lipolysis in children with long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency during fast
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Increased and early lipolysis in children with long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency during fast
Children with long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (LCHAD) have a defect in the degradation of long-chain fatty acids and are at risk of hypoketotic hypoglycemia and insufficient energy produc...
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Decreased bone mineral density in young adults treated with SCT in childhood: the role of 25-hydroxyvitamin D
We measured bone mineral density (BMD) with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in the total body, at the lumbar spine, at the femoral neck and in the total hip, in 18 young adults with a median of 18.2 years aft...
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Glucose metabolism and body composition in young adults treated with TBI during childhood
After SCT in childhood, survivors may develop disorders of glucose metabolism. The role of obesity is controversial. We measured insulin sensitivity using the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) and the freque...
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Open AccessEarly puberty in boys with myelomeningocele. Risk factors for early puberty
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Tissue repair using allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells for hemorrhagic cystitis, pneumomediastinum and perforated colon
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) possess anti-inflammatory properties and participate in tissue repair. We used MSC to heal therapy-induced tissue toxicity. Ten consecutive patients, treated with MSC due to tissue...
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Increased lipolysis in LCHAD deficiency
An increasing number of fatty acid oxidation defects are being detected owing to diagnostic improvements and a greater awareness among clinicians. The metabolic block leads to energy disruption, fatty infiltra...
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73 Metabolic Adaptation in Infants Born Small for Gestational Age
Background: After birth the newborn infant must produce its own glucose until breastfeeding is established. Infants born small for gestational age (SGA) are at risk for neonatal hypoglycemia and development of me...
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3 Increased Lipolysis in Large for Gestational Age Infants
Background: During late gestation the fetus accumulates fat and glycogen for the immediate postnatal period. Newborn infants of diabetic mothers as well as other infants with hyperinsulinemia have particularly la...
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Pubertal development and final height after autologous bone marrow transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
We describe pubertal development and growth in 17 children who underwent bone marrow transplantation (BMT), including total body irradiation (TBI) for ALL. Seven children also received cranial irradiation (CI)...
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Ion specificity and viscosity of rutile dispersions
The isoelectric point (IEP) of rutile is shifted to higher pH values in the presence of greater than 10−4 mol dm−3 Ba2+, Ca2+ and Mg2+, and when a critical concentration (5 × 10−4 mol dm−3 for Ba2+ and 1 × 10−3 ...
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Micelles and liquid crystals in aqueous diglycerol monodecanoate systems
The ternary phase diagram of diglycerol monodecanoate-glycerol monodecanoate-water was studied with conventional methods. Aggregate structure in water-rich samples was examined by means of cryo-TEM (cryo-trans...
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Very Immature Infants (≤ 30 Wk) Respond to Glucose Infusion with Incomplete Suppression of Glucose Production
ABSTRACT: Small substrate stores and immature enzyme systems make preterm infants prone to develop hypoglycemia. Hy-perglycemia may also occur, particularly when these infants are given i.v. glucose. To evalua...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Radio protocol architecture of the CODIT UMTS system
This paper describes the protocol architecture of the radio interface of the CODIT Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). It outlines the structure of layer 2 and 3 of the radio protocol stack, incl...
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Autoantibodies against a novel 51 kDa islet antigen and glutamate decarboxylase isoforms in autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type I
Beta-cell function and islet cell antibodies were studied in six patients with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type I. All suffered from mucocutaneous candidiasis, five had adrenocortical insufficiency and t...
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GROWTH HORMONE THERAPY OF CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME RESULTS IN NORMALIZED GROWTH VELOCITY
Growth velocity is markedly reduced in children with Down syndrome (DS) between 6 months and 3 years of age, but is almost normal after 3 years of age. Thus, the growth retardation becomes pronounced during th...
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The adrenal autoantigen in APSI is the side-chain cleavage enzyme
Autoimmune potyendocrine syndrome type I (Blizzard's syndrome) is an autosomal recessively inherited disease associated with multiple endocrine and non-endocrine manifestations such as autoimmune hypoparathvro...
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Glucose Production Rate in Extremely Immature Neonates (<28 Weeks) Studied by Use of Deuterated Glucose
ABSTRACT: Neonatal hypoglycemia is a frequent complication in immature infants. This may be due to small substrate stores, a high brain:body weight ratio, and immature enzyme systems. The purpose of the presen...
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A therapeutic trial withN-acetylcysteine in subjects with hereditary glutathione synthetase deficiency (5-oxoprolinuria)
In a therapeutic trial, the effect of short-term low-dosageN-acetylcysteine supplementation on glutathione metabolism was investigated in two patients with hereditary glutathione deficiency (5-oxoprolinuria). Cli...