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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Chromosomal instability is a well-known factor in the progression of different types of cancer, including colorectal cancer. Chromosomal instability results in severely rearranged karyotypes and aneuploidy. Tetraploidy constitutes an intermediate phase during the polyploidy/aneuploidy cascade in oncogenesis, and tetraploid cells are particularly resistant to chemotherapy. Whether
AimTo assess the prevalence, types and indications for fluid bolus therapy in neonates with haemodynamic compromise.MethodsThis was a pragmatic, international, multicentre observational study in neonatal units across Australasia, Europe and North America with a predefined study period of 10–15 study days per participating neonatal unit between December 2015 and March 2017. Infants ≤28 days of age
In order to investigate the relation between literature and television, one must consider how the influence goes both ways. The chapter accordingly investigates how contemporary literature reflects on, imitates and remediates modern television series. Drawing on theoretical approaches by Jim Collins and Jason Mittell, I analyse Mark Z. Danielewski’s serial novel The Familiar, which mimics and invo
Negative interest rates were once seen as impossible outside the realm of economic theory. However, recently several central banks have imposed such rates, with prominent economists supporting this move. This column investigates the actual effects of negative interest rates, taking evidence from the Swedish experience during 2015-2019. It is evident that the policy’s effect on the inflation rate w
