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Joko Widodo, allgemein bekannt als Jokowi, wird neuer Präsident Indonesiens. Die Stimmauszählung der nationalen Wahlbehörde ergab, dass er die Präsidentschaftswahl mit 53,15 % der Stimmen gewonnen hat. Ein Sieg für die Demokratie in Indonesien! Jokowi, der amtierende Gouverneur Jakartas, stammt aus einfachen Verhältnissen, gilt als Mann des Volkes und begann seine politische Karriere als Bürgermeister in der zentraljavanischen Stadt Solo. Gegenkandidat Prabowo Subianto hingegen hatte eine Militärkarriere in der autoritären Ordnung Suhartos hinter sich und war dabei in zahlreiche Menschenrechtsverletzungen verwickelt. Der Wahlsieg Jokowis symbolisiert einen Neustart für Indonesiens Demokratie und gleichzeitig eine Abrechnung mit der autoritären Vergangenheit., südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 30 Nr. 4 (2014): Südostasien in Deutschland: Geschichte, Alltag, Netzwerke

BACKGROUND: Early life factors are associated with allergic respiratory diseases, but the role of high grass pollen concentrations during pregnancy and shortly after birth is not known. OBJECTIVE: To assess outdoor levels of grass pollen during the intrauterine period and at birth during peak pollen season on cord blood IgE in birth cohorts. METHODS: Three birth cohorts were included: MACS (n = 429), Australia; COPSAC (n = 200), Denmark; and LISA (n = 1968), Germany. Cord blood IgE was categorized (1 kU/L) and dichotomized (high IgE ≥ 0.5 kU/L). Birth during the grass pollen season months and cumulative exposure to outdoor grass pollen counts during pregnancy with cord blood IgE were analysed using multinomial regression and analysed in meta-analysis using binomial regression adjusted for potential confounders. RESULTS: Birth during the grass pollen season had higher pooled odds of cord blood IgE >0.5 kU/L 1.37 (95% CI 1.06, 1.77) in a meta-analysis with little heterogeneity between the three cohorts. Cumulative exposure to outdoor grass pollen counts during the entire pregnancy was associated with slightly lower pooled odds but significant (OR = 0.98, 95% CI: 0.96 to 0.99). CONCLUSIONS: Birth during grass pollen seasons were associated with increased risk of high cord blood IgE in cities from both hemispheres, but high pollen loads in the environment during the entire pregnancy appeared protective. As IgE responses develop during the first months of life, our study findings provide new insights into the mechanisms of grass pollen exposure at birth and shortly after on possible allergic respiratory diseases.

Free fatty acids in serum were determined by gas chromatography after esterification with boron tri-fluoride-methanol. Following prepurification of the serum lipid fractions by thin layer chromatography, the described analytical procedure selectively determines the medium and long chain free fatty acids. Accuracy and precision were tested. The method is suitable for the analysis of fatty acid kinetics in blood, following lipid infusions.