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How may changes in musicians’ experience of time influence their impressions of hav- ing conscious intentions during musical activity? In this essay I will present and discuss an autoethnographic account of how an exceptionally heightened awareness of time during musical improvisation may be connected to a heightened awareness of one’s own mental activity, particularly of speedy internal deliberat
We consider the averaging process on an infinite connected graph with bounded degree and independent, identically distributed starting values or initial opinions. Assuming that the law of the initial opinion of a vertex has a finite second moment, we show that the opinions of all vertices converge in L2 to the first moment of the law of the initial opinions. A key tool in the proof is the Sharing
We study mixed-integer optimal control problem using indirect approaches. The proposed method relies on splitting algorithms which separate the mixed problem into two solvable pieces and then iteratively alternating between the two. The algorithm gives approximated local solutions, and provides lower and upper bounds estimations of the global optimum. Simulations are provided to validate our appro
Purpose: Cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (cDTI) can investigate the microstructure of heart tissue. At sufficiently high b-values, additional information on microstructure can be observed, but the data require a representation such as diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI). cDTI is prone to image corruption, which is usually treated with shot rejection but which can be handled more generally with robus
Integrating in-situ (wild) and ex-situ (captive) conservation efforts can mitigate genetic diversity loss and help prevent extinction of endangered wild populations. The whooping crane (Grus americana) experienced severe population declines in the 18th century, culminating in a collapse to ~20 individuals by 1944. Legal protections and conservation actions have since increased the census populatio
Purpose: We aimed to investigate the association between overlapping threat to fixation (TTF) and vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) in patients with manifest open-angle glaucoma (OAG). Methods: Overall, 316 patients with manifest OAG were recruited from the glaucoma outpatient department of Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden, between April and December 2018. VRQoL was assessed using the
The Swedish province of Västergötland is home to around 180 churches from the Middle Ages and played an important role in the processes of Christianisation and subsequent state-building of Sweden. The roof structures of these churches act as a window to our past where we can learn information on construction dates and techniques as well as the use of local resources, such as timber. In this joint
This study explored the struggles of countertransference (i.e., psychotherapist’s feelings and reactions) through interviews with 20 mental health therapists. Thematic analysis resulted in four themes: (1) personal vulnerability activated in the therapeutic relationship, (2) difficult-to-endure or obstructive feelings (e.g., aversion or burdening discomfort), (3) secondary distressing reactions el
Contamination or damage to X-ray optics is becoming increasingly problematic for beamlines at 3rd and 4th generation storage-rings and FEL sources. Carbon contamination, induced by ultra-intense photon-beams, can cause a major loss in flux, focusing power, and specific absorptions which are detrimental to spectroscopy. For new light sources, with higher coherence, intensity, and repetition rates,
Introduction: Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is a potentially severe systemic inflammatory condition triggered by various immunomodulatory therapies, making understanding its pathogenesis critical for improving patient outcomes. Results/Methods: By combining immunotoxicology and systems biology approaches, we offer a novel and integrative conceptual model of CRS as an adverse outcome (AO), induce
We study the effects of principal instructional leadership on pupil educational achievement using longitudinal data of 120,394 teacher responses across 1919 schools in Sweden over 9 years. Through multilevel structural equation modelling, we test how teacher ratings of principal leadership influence indicators of educational achievement and the extent to which this effect is channelled through a c
Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the extended Japanese archipelago is among the most geologically hazardous zones for human habitation located anywhere on the planet. Despite these threats and challenges, Japan has supported a series of unique cultures and societies that have evolved and changed over many millennia. The major existential risks include relentless volcanic eruptions, earthquakes
Background: Because breast cancer (BC) is molecularly heterogeneous, diagnosis and treatment will likely benefit from comprehensive genetic profiling. However, routine, high-resolution sequencing is not feasible yet, due to implementation challenges associated with whole-genome sequencing of formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) BC samples. Therefore, we explored the potential of an alternative
Migratory songbirds have an internal circannual genetic programme that controls the timing and extent of migratory flight activity, as demonstrated by experiments with birds held in cages. We used multisensor data loggers to record the timing and duration of all migratory flights during the annual cycle of 15 free-living individuals of red-backed shrikes Lanius collurio. Annual actograms unexpecte
A blood biomarker-based staging system for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) could improve the diagnosis, prognosis and identification of individuals most likely to benefit from specific therapies. Here, using targeted mass spectrometry, we measured six phosphorylated and six nonphosphorylated tau peptides in plasma from two independent cohorts: BioFINDER-2 and TRIAD (n = 689). We also analyzed the ratios
