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Acoustic cell patterning in hydrogel for three-dimensional cell network formation

In the field of engineered organ and drug development, three-dimensional network-structured tissue has been a long-sought goal. This paper presents a direct hydrogel extrusion process exposed to an ultrasound standing wave that aligns fibroblast cells to form a network structure. The frequency-shifted (2 MHz to 4 MHz) ultrasound actuation of a 400-micrometer square-shaped glass capillary that was

Heritagelore and an Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Culture and Heritage Under Construction

Taking inspiration in Barbro Klein’s work, this article focuses on the production of a particular type of institutional lore that we call heritagelore. Heritagelore, as we are advancing the concept here, is composed of the discursive practices within the walls and the organizations of museums. It is the lore that shapes and at least partially structures the types of stories that directors, museum

INTERnational Project for the Evaluation of "activE Rehabilitation" (inter-PEER) - A protocol for a prospective cohort study of community peer-based training programmes for people with spinal cord injury

Background: Active Rehabilitation (AR) is a community peer-based concept for people with spinal cord injury (SCI) that is primarily delivered through brief residential training programmes. Despite a plethora of positive anecdotal evidence of AR programmes as life-changing experiences, the effects of AR-programmes have not been evaluated scientifically. Here, we present the protocol of the INTERnat

Iran’s Killing Machine: Political Assassinations by the Islamic Regime

It was recently revealed that the Iranian regime was planning to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa. Tehran denied any such plans, but a brief look at the Islamic regime’s history shows that Iran not only has the will but also the means to conduct assassinations on foreign soil.Assassinations and terrorism have been the regime’s modus operandi both at home and abroad ever since the esta

Responsibility for Funding Refractive Correction in Publicly Funded Health Care Systems: An Ethical Analysis

Allocating on the basis of need is a distinguishing principle in publicly funded health care systems. Resources ought to be directed to patients, or the health program, where the need is considered greatest. In Sweden support of this principle can be found in health care legislation. Today however some domains of what appear to be health care needs are excluded from the responsibilities of the pub

A part of social work and apart from social work: : hospital nurses in hospital discharges of older people in Sweden

The aim of this study was to reveal how hospital nurses handle the process when older people are considering relocation to a residential home after hospitalization. The focus is of special interest as, in Sweden, hospital nurses are employed by a county council without the authority to decide on local municipal care after hospital discharge. Ten nurses from three hospital wards participated in ope

S-100 protein levels in the blood of Fischer rats exposed to 915 MHz CW-microwaves and magnetic fields.

EnglishPersson, B. R. R., Nittby Redenbrant, H., Malmgren, L., Brun, A., and Salford, L. G. (2020). S-100 protein levels in the blood of Fischer rats exposed to 915 MHz CW-microwaves and magnetic fields. Acta Scientiarum Lundensia, Vol. 2020-005, pp. 1-9, ISSN 1651-5013Abstrakt.Syftet var att studera nivån av S-100 i blodprover som tagits från Fischer-344-råttor efter exponering för 915 MHz CW-mik

Droplet digital PCR and mile-post analysis for the detection of F8 int1h inversions

BACKGROUND: F8 int1h inversions (Inv1) are detected in 1-2% of severe hemophilia A (HA) patients. Long-range polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and inverse-shifting PCR have been used to diagnose these inversions.OBJECTIVES: To design and validate a sensitive and robust assay for detection of F8 Inv1 inversions.METHODS: Archival DNA samples were investigated using mile-post assays and droplet digital

Autonomous Wary Collision Avoidance

Handling of critical situations is an important part in the architecture of an autonomous vehicle. A controller for autonomous collision avoidance is developed based on a wary strategy that assumes the least tireroad friction for which the maneuver is still feasible. Should the friction be greater, the controller makes use of this and performs better. The controller uses an acceleration-vector ref

Autonomous-Vehicle Maneuver Planning Using Segmentation and the Alternating Augmented Lagrangian Method

Segmenting a motion-planning problem into smaller subproblems could be beneficial in terms of computational complexity. This observation is used as a basis for a new sub-maneuver decomposition approach investigated in this paper in the context of optimal evasive maneuvers for autonomous ground vehicles. The recently published alternating augmented Lagrangianmethod is adopted and leveraged on, whic

Simulating Weather Events with a Linked Atmosphere-Hydrology Model

This study aims at assess the importance of a conceptual representation of hydrological processes when modelling atmospheric circulation. It compares results from a regional atmospheric model that interprets land surface hydrological processes based on parameterizations with results from a two-way coupled atmosphere-hydrological model that has a process-based approach to the land surface hydrologi

A New Decryption Failure Attack Against HQC

HQC is an IND-CCA2 KEM running for standardization in NIST’s post-quantum cryptography project and has advanced to the second round. It is a code-based scheme in the class of public key encryptions, with given sets of parameters spanning NIST security strength 1, 3 and 5, corresponding to 128, 192 and 256 bits of classic security.In this paper we present an attack recovering the secret key of an H

Childhood sexual abuse. An evaluation of a two-year group therapy in adult women

Twenty-two female psychiatric outpatients with experiences of childhood sexual abuse took part in a two-year group therapy. All Completed therapy. At the end of therapy the women's psychiatric symptoms were reduced and their social interaction and adjustment were improved. They evaluated relationships to their children, partners and friends to be improved.