Widespread contamination of ecosystems with pesticides threatens non-target organisms. However, the extent to which life-history traits affect pesticide exposure and resulting risk in different landscape contexts remains poorly understood. We address this for bees across an agricultural land-use gradient based on pesticide assays of pollen and nectar collected by Apis mellifera, Bombus terrestris

In 1827, an Indian juggler named Mooty Madua Samme converted to Christianity in Stockholm, Sweden. This historical event got much attention in the press at the time – as did his succeeding marriage to a Swedish woman named Erica – and was celebrated as a victory for the Evangelical Lutheran faith. Later, in the 1840s, a narrative depicting the event spread via a travelogue by Xavier Marmier, which

Background: Hypertension is the leading modifiable risk factor for cerebral small vessel diseases (SVDs). Yet, it is unknown whether antihypertensive drug classes differentially affect microvascular function in SVDs. Aims: To test whether amlodipine has a beneficial effect on microvascular function when compared to either losartan or atenolol, and whether losartan has a beneficial effect when comp

Syfte: Syftet med vår studie var att undersöka hur personer med afasi upplever sin kommunikation och livskvalitet och om upplevelsen har ett samband med svårighetsgrad av stroke, svårighetsgrad av afasi samt kognitiv förmåga. Metod: I studien ingick 30 deltagare som fått afasi till följd av en ischemisk stroke. Tre månader efter insjuknandet genomförde deltagarna Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT).Purpose: The aim of the present study was to investigate how people with aphasia experience their communication and quality of life and whether the experience is related to degree of stroke, degree of aphasia and cognitive ability. Method: The study included 30 participants who acquired aphasia as a result of an ischemic stroke. Three months post stroke, participants completed the Comprehensive Ap

Syfte: Studien syftar till att kartlägga hur erfarna logopeder i konsensus perceptuellt bedömer transkvinnors röster. Ett vidare syfte är kartlägga om logopedernas perceptuella konsensusbedömning av parametern maskulin respektive feminin och parametern röstansträngning korrelerar med transkvinnornas självskattning av samma parametrar. Metod: Undersökningen är en deskriptiv studie som kombinerar kPurpose: The following study attempts to map how experienced speech-language pathologists perceptually evaluate trans women’s voices in consensus. A further purpose is to compare perceptual evaluations of speech-language pathologists (SLP’s), to examine any correlation to trans women’s self-evaluation of the same parameters. Method: This descriptive study entails quantitative as well as qualitat

Multiple scales measuring a customer's, or consumer's, engagement (CE) with a brand or specific brand elements (e.g., advertising/social media content) have been proposed in the literature, offering researchers different options to gauge CE. However, the myriad proposed operationalizations can yield confusion among scholars regarding how to best capture CE, exposing a growing issue for CE research

We present an investigation of the temperature dependence of the current characteristic of a long-channel InGaAs quantum well MOSFET. A model is developed, which includes the effects of band tail states, electron concentration-dependent mobility, and interface trap density to accurately explain the measured data over all modes of operation. The increased effect of remote impurity scattering i

Objective: Little is known to what extent access to specialist palliative care (SPC) for cancer patients dying with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) affects the occurrence of breakthrough symptoms, symptom relief, and overall care, compared to hospital deaths. Our aim was to include patients with both COVID-19 and cancer and compare those dying in hospitals with those dying in SPC with referenc

Objectives: The aim was to explore the association between neighborhood deprivation and all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortalities in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. A better understanding of this potential relationship may help to identify patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with an increased mortality risk. Methods: This nationwide study included practicall

Purpose: To evaluate the performance of different probabilistic classifiers to predict posterior capsule rupture (PCR) prior to cataract surgery. Methods: Three probabilistic classifiers were constructed to estimate the probability of PCR: a Bayesian network (BN), logistic regression (LR) model, and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network. The classifiers were trained on a sample of 2 853 376 surgeri

I samband med gruvbrytning uppkommer restprodukten anrikningssand, som är ett finkornigt material. För att skydda omkringliggande miljö läggs anrikningssanden i gruvdammar. Beroende på vilken konstruktionsmetod som används blir anrikningssanden mer eller mindre en del av själva konstruktionen. Detta innebär att anrikningssandens egenskaper behöver utvärderas så att anrikningssanden kan ha den last

Introduction: Ischemic stroke incidence appears to have decreased during the last decades, but most studies focus on the first-ever events and epidemiological data on recurrent stroke are scarce. The aim of our study was to investigate trends in incidence, risk factors, and medication in patients with first-ever and recurrent ischemic stroke between 2010 and 2019 in Sweden. Methods: We included pa

Introduction: The specificity of cortisol after 1 mg dexamethasone (cortisolDST) ≥50 nmol/L as a criterion for mild autonomous cortisol secretion (MACS) is approximately 85% in patients with adrenal incidentalomas (AI). The aim was to study the associations of cortisolDST to age, BMI, and renal function. Methods: We studied 1,129 patients with AI examined from 2005 to 2015 at Skåne University Hosp

Podcast "Öppet fall" från Lunds universitet, Juridiska fakulteten: En missad deklaration leder till att IT-företagaren Jim Rousk förlorar sitt hem. Kronofogden säljer hans hus, magasinerar möblerna, och placerar hans katt på kattpensionat. Rousk försöker överklaga men får svaret att alla lagar har följts. Då stämmer han Sverige inför Europadomstolen för mänskliga rättigheter.

This article reports on the development and validation of the Informal Second Language Engagement questionnaire (ISLE) for capturing various aspects of learner engagement with informal second language practices. Whereas other questionnaires have primarily focused on learner behavior (the frequency, quantity, and diversity of informal activities in which learners engage), the ISLE additionally targ