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Background: Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a heterogeneous condition predominantly affecting autonomic control of the cardiovascular system. Its extensive symptom diversity implies multi-organ involvement that interacts in ways still requiring full exploration. Current understanding of POTS pathophysiology suggests alterations in the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system as a p
The article opposes the view that marginality is a decisive trait of Swedish alternative care practitioners. Instead, factors such as the structural looseness of these occupational roles and the fact that the practitioners belong to no specific work organization is stressed. The practitioners have to demonstrate the legitimacy of their work and enforce the boundaries around their work ethics by th
When goals for assistance to a group are defined from 'the outside', what happens to the group members' own wishes? In the regulations concerning the food for elderly long-term-care patients in Swedish hospitals, the exact vitamins and nutrients which every meal should contain are indicated very precisely. What happens in this situation to the patients' own wishes? The question was actualized when
Above-ground biomass (AGB) is considered an essential climate variable that underpins our knowledge and information about the role of forests in mitigating climate change. The availability of satellite-based AGB and AGB change (ΔAGB) products has increased in recent years. Here we assessed the past decade net ΔAGB derived from four recent global multi-date AGB maps: ESA-CCI maps, WRI-Flux model, J
Reviews the book, Using the Bodies of the Dead: Legal, Ethical and Organisational Dimensions of Organ Transplantation by Nora Machado (1998). Machado's book is important for impressing this fact on the reader. Machado describes the strains that arise when an individual is reduced from being someone's next of kin, the focus of a private and above all family-oriented situation, to being a body, and
Which are the features marking modern motherhood? Our attempts to answer this are based on an investigation among young working-class mothers. Our focus is norms pertaining to the relation between mother and child. Some of these seem distinctly subcultural working-class norms, while others are supposed to be more general. However, norms here presented are held to be the marks of young families, in
The social-aid institution has been analyzed almost exclusively from a social problems approach, aiming at the understanding of social aid clients as a social problem. This article views them from a different angle, as a sociological category occupying a unique position in society. Following Simmel, we deal here with those who are poor in a social sense, i.e., anyone receiving public assistance. I
Earlier descriptions of the expansion of fashion often centered on new areas of content such as first names, or scientific approaches. Here sociologists will see how an old area of fashion activity receives new treatment. The subject area is food, not in respect to vogue in dishes, but in reference to the preparation of food as a matter of vogue. The practical has become independent of the strictl
Writing the history of philosophy to some extent also implies expressing a certain philosophy of history. This article discusses a particular case of this dialectic, namely how one has related modern philosophy to pre-modern theological philosophies when writing the history of philosophy during the 20th Century. Is the emphasis put on the continuity or the interruptions between the two traditions,
The Swedish inventor Christopher Polhem had an idea of a universal language which occupied him for decades, i.e. a perfect language which can be spoken and understood by everyone, by the educated and non educated alike, and no matter where they come from. Polhem did a large number of sketches for such a universal language, among others a manuscript concerning a lunar language, which was completely
