BACKGROUND: Traumatic acute subdural hematomas (ASDHs) are associated with high rate of morbidity and mortality, especially in elderly individuals. However, recent reports indicate that the morbidity and mortality rates might have improved.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate postoperative (30-d) mortality in younger vs elderly (≥70 yr) patients with ASDH. Comparing younger and elderly patients, the secondary o

A search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into W boson pairs is presented. It uses a data sample from proton–proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb- 1 collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. This search is guided by a model that includes an extension of the Higgs sector through a scalar triplet, lead

Recension av antologin Strykjärn och diamanter, redaktör Kristina Rotkirch

It has become increasingly clear that the individual genetic background influences susceptibility to metal toxicity. Genetic variation in genes that regulate metal toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics influence the degree of metal accumulation and retention in the body, as well as toxic effects. Moreover, factors that regulate gene expression, so-called epigenetic factors, have been identified as tar

A search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb¯ bb¯ final state is carried out with up to 36.1 fb−1 of LHC proton-proton collision data collected at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016. Three benchmark signals are studied: a spin-2 graviton decaying into a Higgs boson pair, a scalar resonance decaying into a Higgs boson pair, and Standard Model non-resonant Higgs boson pair produ

Antibodies against P. falciparum merozoites fix complement to inhibit blood-stage replication in naturally-acquired and vaccine-induced immunity; however, specific targets of these functional antibodies and their importance in protective immunity are unknown. Among malaria-exposed individuals, we show that complement-fixing antibodies to merozoites are more strongly correlated with protective immu

AbstractImmune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune bleeding disorder characterized by low platelet counts. First-line treatment includes intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), however, its working mechanism remains incompletely understood. We investigated splenic and thymic dendritic cell (DC) subsets upon IVIg treatment in a well-characterized active murine model of ITP. During active disease, th

Denna promemoria bygger på resultat från en kvalitativ studie av folkbibliotek i fem skånska kommuner som 2018 publicerats i rapporten Styrdokumenten i vardagen: en undersökning av kulturpolitiska styrdokuments strategiska och praktiska betydelse för folkbibliotek i fem skånska kommuner. Studien genomfördes under 2016 och 2017 av Johanna Rivano Eckerdal och Hanna Carlsson. Fokus för studien var de

The standard Godunov type method used in computational fluid dynamics shows accuracy problems for low Mach number flows and for the kinetic energy at the highest wave numbers resolvable on a given grid. Both drawbacks become visible when simulating the decay of isotropic turbulence at the low Mach numbers typical for the respective experimental investigations. A modification to cure both problems

The production of Z bosons in association with a high-energy photon (Zγ production) is studied in the neutrino decay channel of the Z boson using pp collisions at s√=13 TeV. The analysis uses a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 36.1fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. Candidate Zγ events with invisible decays of the Z boson are selected by requiring signific

Föreliggande rapport sammanfattar arbetet med att uppskatta vattenbalanser genom hydrologisk simulering för Malmö Botaniska Trädgård i Lindängelund, Malmö. Bedömning av maximalbehovet av bevattning inom biotopytorna visar på relativt små vattenflöden (totalt ca 6.2 l/s). Vid en antagen medelvattenhastighet om 10 cm/s (motsvarar ett lugnt flytande naturvattendrag) erhålls ett flöde på ca 80 l/s. Va

Föreliggande rapport sammanfattar arbetet med att uppskatta vattenbalanser genom hydrologisk simulering för Malmö Botaniska Trädgård i Lindängelund, Malmö. Bedömning av maximalbehovet av bevattning inom biotopytorna visar på relativt små vattenflöden (totalt ca 6.2 l/s). Vid en antagen medelvattenhastighet om 10 cm/s (motsvarar ett lugnt flytande naturvattendrag) erhålls ett flöde på ca 80 l/s. Va

Objectives. Chest pain is a common complaint in the emergency department (ED), and it is a challenge to identify low-risk chest pain patients eligible for early discharge. We aimed to develop a simple objective decision rule to exclude 30-day major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in ED chest pain patients. Design. We analyzed prospectively included patients presenting with chest pain. Low risk patie

The local and systemic invasiveness of soft-tissue sarcomas may depend upon an interaction between the primary tumour and the extracellular matrix in which the proteolytic enzyme, urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), may have an important role. We analyzed the expression of uPA in soft-tissue sarcoma using a luminescent immunoassay technique; and examined the relationships between different uPA

Our study combined size and timing of the first local recurrence to create a growth rate index (GRI- ratio of size (cm) to timing (mo)) which we analyzed for an association with metastasis. We analyzed 134 locally recurrent tumors from a series of 460 adult patients with soft tissue sarcoma of the extremities and trunk wall who were diagnosed and treated between 1964 and 1990, with a median follow