This book delineates the scope of permissible compulsory mental health interventions under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).The initial impetus for this study was provided by a conflict between two competing positions within the current debate over the future of coercive psychiatry. According to one position, defended by the CRPD Committee, among others, compulsory

People who spread misinformation in public debates expose others to the risk of forming false beliefs. Excluding them from participation can limit this exposure, but fact-checking takes up resources of time and money, and censorship violates social and political norms. Here, computer simulations of Bayesian learning in social networks suggest that, in some contexts anyway, the epistemic benefits o

This paper draws on two ethnographic research projects in Japanese university sports clubs to examine the role alcohol plays in the social and cultural education of students. Over the course of a four-year membership, the university sports club is a site where members learn to negotiate drinking. This negotiation is demonstrated by the range of strategies members employ when engaging in one of the

Background: Thrombocytopenia is correlated to hemorrhagic complications in patients with low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) thromboprophylaxis. Aims: The aims of our study were to investigate an experimentally induced in vitro thrombocytopenia and then adding 2 types of LMWHs in vitro. Our hypothesis was that a platelet depleted whole blood sample could reflect a stronger synergistic anticoagulat

Research that engages with the intersection of sport and gender needs to consider aspects of social interaction not only of the physical component of the sport but also the other day-to-day activities related to it. The examination of women and kendo-related hegemonic drinking in this chapter provides an insightful perspective and highlights the value of the ethnographic method in unexplored place

Introduction: Initiating low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) thromboprophylaxis too early in patients with traumatic braininjury increases the risk of intracranial bleeding. Therefore, it is important to monitor LMWH and asses when it is safe to initiate.The aim of this research was to study alternative monitoring methods for LMWH than the standard method anti-factor Xa (antiFXa), and to investiga

The cost of renewable energy from wind and solar in 2019 plunged to the low levels that few policy-makers anticipated only several years ago. Such technological developments have broad implications for all Central Asian economies. The share of wind and solar energy in the region remained negligible for a long time due to the abundant supply of cheap energy from fossil or hydro resources. Central A

BakgrundFör att tackla den rådande SARS-COV-2-pandemin har det ställts höga krav på en snabb utveckling och utvärdering av nya antivirala läkemedel. Bland några av de antivirala läkemedelskandidaterna finns imiquimod, en TLR7 agonist normalt administrerad för behandling av könsvårtor och basalcellscarcinom. Eftersom det har påvisats att imiquimod kan öka den antivirala responsen, är vår hypotes at

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC; accounting for approximately 13%–15% of all lung cancers) is an exceptionally lethal malignancy characterized by rapid doubling time and high propensity to metastasize. In contrast to the increasingly personalized therapies in other types of lung cancer, SCLC is still regarded as a homogeneous disease and the prognosis of SCLC patients remains poor. Recently, however,

The cardiac hormone atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is a central regulator of blood volume and a therapeutic target in hypertension and heart failure. Enhanced ANP activity in such conditions through inhibition of the degradative enzyme neprilysin has shown clinical efficacy but is complicated by consequences of simultaneous accumulation of a heterogeneous array of other hormones. Targets for spe

Background: Medical devices are increasingly being reported to cause contact allergic dermatitis reactions. Objective: Review of patients with diabetes type I referred for suspected allergic contact dermatitis to insulin pump or glucose sensor systems. Method: We have reviewed 11 referred diabetes mellitus patients investigated for allergic contact dermatitis reactions to medical devices and speci

Hamming code-based LDPC (H-LDPC) block codes are obtained by replacing single parity-check codes in Gallager's LDPC codes with Hamming constituent codes. This paper investigates the asymptotic error-correcting capabilities of ensembles of random H-LDPC codes, used over the binary symmetric channel and decoded with a low-complexity hard-decision iterative decoding algorithm. The number of required