Background Arteriovenous fistulae are the currently recommended gold standard vascular
access modality for haemodialysis because of their prolonged patency, improved durability, …

Driven by the continuous search for improving performances, understanding the phenomena
at the electrode/electrolyte interfaces has become an overriding factor for the success of …

… pressure were still constantly improving, consistent with the fact that the measured vacuum
lifetime after one year of operation is of the order of 100 h and the design goal is 300 h. …

The local point symmetry of the short-range order in simple monatomic liquids remains a
fundamental open question in condensed-matter science. For more than 40 years it has been …

Background Phase 1 studies have shown potential benefit of gene replacement in RPE65-mediated
inherited retinal dystrophy. This phase 3 study assessed the efficacy and safety of …

… H 2 SO 4 /H 2 O 2 piranha etch), followed by ultraviolet (172 nm) irradiation. Typical values
for the substrate surface roughness, σ S , were 2 to 2.5 Å, as determined by x-ray reflectivity. …

Ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) monitoring is increasingly used to evaluate the blood
pressure of children and adolescents. The upper normal ABP values in the pediatric age group …

<< Zebrafish hit the big time»: This title of a recent commentary in Science (Kahn, 1994)
reflects the growing importance of a new model organism for developmental research, the …

… The thickness and the density of the head and the tail group are d h = 5.7 Å, ρ h = 1.7 g cm
−3 and d t = 21.8 Å, ρ t = 0.86 g cm −3 , respectively (see Fig. 2 Inset). These values are in …

… At 96 h ALH we found an average of two CycE-positive cells (range one to five) and a
maximum of one cell engaged in mitosis as visualized by anti-PH3 (Figure 2e) [40]. This pattern …