A multidisciplinary concept has been developed to compare advanced wastewater treatment
processes for their efficacy of eliminating micropollutants and pathogens. The concept is …

Purpose To assess long-term clinical and oncological outcome in women undergoing radical
cystectomy and ileal neobladder reconstruction for invasive bladder cancer. Methods From …

Donor catecholamine use reduces acute allograft rejection and improves graft survival after
cadaveric renal transplantation. Background Epidemiological data implicate that renal …

Agricultural practices need to change to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals by 2030. How to achieve the SDGs is heavily contested. Here we propose a policy …

As in many countries, German offices are changing, with smaller offices increasingly giving
way to open office landscapes for maximum space efficiency. The changed environment has …

In defining the relationship between violence and justice in “The Critique of Violence,”
Walter Benjamin suggests that violence must be evaluated “within the sphere of means, …

While bulk gold is generally considered to be a catalytically inactive material, nanostructured
forms of gold can in fact be highly catalytically active. However, few methods exist for …

METHODS: Two-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were used in this study. The age-matched
control animals (Am-C) were fed a normal diet and the experimental animals were fed …

Background Gastrointestinal graft–versus-host disease (GvHD) is a potentially life-threatening
complication after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). Since therapeutic options …

Before fusing with the presynaptic plasma membrane to release neurotransmitter into the
synaptic cleft synaptic vesicles have to be recruited to and docked at a specialized area of the …