Landau-Ginzburg Orbifolds, Mirror Symmetry and the Elliptic Genus

We compute the elliptic genus for arbitrary two dimensional $N=2$ Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds. This is used to search for possible mirror pairs of such models. We show that if two Landau-Ginzburg models are conjugate to each other in a certain sense, then to every orbifold of the first theory corresponds an orbifold of the second theory with the same elliptic genus (up to a sign) and with the roles of the chiral and anti-chiral rings interchanged. These orbifolds thus constitute a possible mirror pair. Furthermore, new pairs of conjugate models may be obtained by taking the product of old ones. We also give a sufficient (and possibly necessary) condition for two models to be conjugate, and show that it is satisfied by the mirror pairs proposed by one of the authors and~H\"ubsch.Comment: p.22, IASSNS-HEP-93/92, use harvma

New and interesting records of lichens from Pältsan (Mt Bealccan) in northernmost Sweden

Austroplaca subtiroliensis, Gyalidea lecideopsis, Phacographa protoparmeliae, Placynthium pulvinatum and Solorina octospora are reported new to Sweden. Several other rare or rarely collected lichens are also reported: Absconditella annexa, Arthrorhaphis vacillans, Farnoldia micropsis, Gyalidea polyspora, Ionaspis ventosa, Lecanora lecanoricola, L. leptacinella, Lecidea commaculans, Pachyascus lapponicus, Placidiopsis pseudocinerea, Schadonia fecunda, Scytinium aquale and Thelocarpon sphaerosporum

SLF:s höstexkursion längs Indalsälven 12–13 september 2015

Andra helgen i september var det dags för SLF att ta en tur längs Indalsälven. Elfenbenslav, trådbrosklav och grynig påskrislav stod på programmet och vi var också sugna på att ta en ordentlig titt på stenarna i den torrlagda älvfåran i Döda fallets naturreservat. 11 deltagare träffades på vandrarhemmet i Liden för höstens lavexkursion

SLF:s höstexkursion till Skäckerfjällen 15-17 augusti 2008

Förra året beslutade SLF att 'adoptera' Skäckerfjällen i Jämtland, vilket innebär att föreningen avser att göra en fullständig inventering av dess lavar genom återkommande besök under ett antal år. Första besöket gjordes under höstexkursionen 2008 i mångahanda spännande miljöer, såsom kalkbranter, bäckraviner med gammal granskog, videsnår, snölegor och fjälltoppar med urberg. Exkursionen resulterade i en imponerande artlista med bl.a. två nya arter för Sverige

CD40 expression identifies a prognostically favourable subgroup of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

In order to confirm our earlier findings of the prognostic effects of CD23 and CD40 expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), possibly due to association with the germinal center (GC) phenotype and/or an increased autologous tumour response, tumour specimens from 125 patients with de novo DLBCL were investigated for immunohistochemical expression of CD23, CD40, BCL6, CD10, MUM1, CD4 and CD8. CD40 was positive in 64% and was associated with improved overall survival (p = 0.03). A GC phenotype was present in 47%, and was also associated with a better overall survival (p = 0.006) but did not correlate with CD40-expression. There was no correlation between amount of tumour infiltrating T-cells and CD40-positivity. CD23 was positive in 10% and expression did not correlate with prognosis. In conclusion, the prognostic effect of CD40 expression was confirmed, but did not correlate with GC-phenotype or T-cell infiltration