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The adoption of precision farming (PF) was studied on the basis of personal interviews conducted at several agricultural exhibitions in Germany. Between 6.65% and 11% of the interviewed farmers used PF. The ma...
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Immunological Memory Stabilizing Autoreactivity
The etiopathologies of autoimmune diseases are complex. A broad variety of cell types and gene products are involved. However, clinical and experimental evidence suggests that the importance of an individual f...
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Application of fiber reinforced high performance composites in spun-cast elements
Spin casting is an effective method to produce concrete pylons, masts or pipes. Through the centrifugation process the concrete is compacted and the desired shape, mostly round or ellipsoidal, is obtained. The...
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Feasibility of concrete prestressed by shape memory alloy short fibers
Mortar and concrete exhibit low tensile strengths. Hence, cracks develop easily due to shrinkage and external actions. They can be prevented by applying prestress, thus obtaining crack-free products. Such prod...
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Open AccessDiagnosing melanoma patients entering American Joint Committee on Cancer stage IV, C-reactive protein in serum is superior to lactate dehydrogenase
Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in serum has recently been introduced into the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for cutaneous melanoma because of its prognostic value. We hypothesised LDH t...
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Abstracts of original contributions ASNC 2004 9th annual scientific session September 3-–October 3, 2004 New York, New York
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Expression levels for many genes in human peripheral blood cells are highly sensitive to ex vivo incubation
Monitoring of gene and protein expression in peripheral blood cells has significant potential for improving the diagnosis and therapy of many human diseases. As genomic-scale microarray and proteomic technolog...
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Sediment cores were collected from Upper Klamath Lake in October, 1998 and analyzed for 210Pb, 14C, 15N, N, P, C, Ti, Al, diatoms, Pediastrum, and cyanobacterial akinetes. These results were used to reconstruct c...
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Successful immunotherapy in early relapse of acute myeloid leukemia after nonmyeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation
We report on a 35-year-old woman who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) in second complete remission (CR) of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) after reduced-intensity conditioning with fludarabine...
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We analyzed toxicity and efficacy of chemotherapy (CT) or second stem cell transplantation (SCT) and/or immunotherapy defined as stop of immunosuppression (IS) or donor leukocyte infusion (DLI) in 47 patients ...
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A large group of patients relapsing after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) have obtained remission after infusion of leukocytes from their original donor, suggesting a graft-versus-myeloma effect....
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Use of A Linear Viscoelastic Constitutive Law to Model the Time Dependent Behaviour of an Orthotropic Glassfibre Reinforced Plastic
One of the aims of our co-operation with an industrial company is to investigate the time dependent behaviour of a centrifugally cast filled glass fibre reinforced unsaturated polyester resin pipe. The pipe co...
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Mucin-like cancer-associated antigen (MCA), a new tumor marker using the mouse monoclonal antibody b-12 is thought to be of value in the management of patients with breast cancer. In this study sera from 191 f...
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Twenty-six cycles of high-dose ifosfamide+mesna (HD-IFO+M) were applied to seven female patients with advanced breast cancer refractory to prior treatment, using three different durations of continuous infusio...
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The clinical course of 50 breast cancer patients whose first metastases were found in the lungs was investigated. 18 months after the start of primary treatment 50% of the patients had developed pulmonary meta...
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Dimuon and trimuon events have been studied in deep inelastic muon scattering on an iron target at an incident muon energy of 200 GeV. The events are shown to originate mainly from charm production. Comparison...
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