Objective: To identify factors, individual and work related, influencing work ability, and to assess the association between work ability and employment status, activities of daily life (ADLs) and quality of life in patients with SSc. Methods: Fifty-seven consecutive patients (53 females/4 males) with SSc (47 lcSSc/10 dcSSc) were included. Median age was 58 [interquartile range (IQR) 47-62] year

Den kanske allra bästa radiomottagaren under andra världskriget heter Köln E52, figur 1, och konstruerades och byggdes av Telefunken. Den har med åren blivit en raritet eftersom kriget, tillsammans med tidens tand, reducerat antalet mottagare betydlig. Det var därför med stor glädje och förvåning som en sådan apparat nyligen återupptäcktes på Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH).

Denna rapport är en redovisning av den intervjuundersökning som genomfördes under Äldre, Boende, Design projektets första etapp. Innehållet är organiserat efter fyra frågeställningar: Hur ser det moderna urbana äldrelivet ut? Hur beskriver deltagarna sin relation till den tekniska utvecklingen i allmänhet och till utvecklingen av informations- och kommunikationstekniken i synnerhet? I vilket av

Telecommunications industries are investing tremendously to meet the ever-increasing demands for higher data rates and capacity. In particular to develop standardization for 5G, which is expected around 2020. The existing spectrum for traditional mobile networks is limited to highly occupied bands at microwave frequencies below 6 GHz. It is expected that 5G will use millimeter-waves to enable high

BACKGROUND: Hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) is expressed predominantly in adipose tissue, where it plays an important role in catecholamine-stimulated hydrolysis of stored tri- and diglycerides, thus mobilizing fatty acids. HSL exhibits broad substrate specificity and besides acylglycerides it hydrolyzes cholesteryl esters, retinyl esters and lipoidal esters. Despite its role in fatty acid mobiliza

Summary The CAG repeat in the androgen receptor (AR) has been widely studied in association with male infertility, but the results are conflicting. In a recent meta-analysis, infertile men had 23 and analysed in a binary logistic regression model. Men with CAG < 22 and CAG > 23 had 20% increased odds ratio of infertility compared with carriers of the median lengths [for CAG < 22: p = 0.03, 95% co

Future wireless systems envision higher speeds and more reliable services but at the same time face challenges in terms of bandwidth being a limited resource. Two promising techniques that can provide an increased throughput without requiring additional bandwidth allocation are multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and ultra-wideband (UWB) systems. However, the performance of such systems

Aims: Familial risks for coronary heart disease (CHD) in families with multiple affected siblings have not been thoroughly studied. This nationwide cohort study aimed to determine familial risks for hospitalization or death due to CHD in families with multiple affected siblings. Methods and results: The study is a nationwide follow-up study. The Swedish Multigeneration Register data on 0-76-year-

Consider nonbacktracking convolutional decoders that keep a fixed number of trellis survivors. It is shown that the error performance of these depends on the early part of the distance profile and on the number of survivors kept, and not on the free distance or the details of the code generators. Particularly, the encoder may be feedforward systematic without loss. Furthermore, this kind of encode

The natural frequencies or the singularity expansion method (SEM) poles are computed for circular disks. We treat the acoustically soft disk, i.e, the Dirichlet boundary condition, and the perfectly conducting disk. The poles are found by an application of theT-matrix method by searching the zeros of a determinant. The poles associated with the first values of the azimuthal indexmare shown in both

Safe languages like Java provide a much more programmerfriendly environment than the low-level languages in which real-time and embedded software have traditionally been implemented. However, an obstacle for widespread use of Java in control applications has been the predictability and real-time performance of garbage collection, and the cumbersome memory management associated with RTSJ NoHeapReal

Since the latest update of the checklist on bees known from Denmark, the following three species have been added as new to the country: Colletes halophilus Verhoeff, 1943 (Colletidae), Nomada obscura Zetterstedt, 1838 (Apidae) and Xylocopa violacea (Linnaeus, 1758) (Apidae). The national checklist hereby includes 286 bee species, but more species will probably be found in the future, as the wild b