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Kinning as intimate disaster response : from recuperation in host families to educational migration of the Chernobyl children from Belarus to Italy

This article brings the concept of kinning from anthropology and the sociology of adoption and care work to the study of disaster response and migration. It looks at intimate relationships between the Chernobyl children from Belarus and host families in Italy within the humanitarian programme of child recuperation abroad and argues that these relationships can be understood as kinning. Kinning imp

CYLD, a mechanosensitive deubiquitinase, regulates TGFβ signaling in load-induced bone formation

Many signaling pathways involved in bone homeostasis also participate in the anabolic response of bone to mechanical loading. For example, TGFβ signaling coordinates the maintenance of bone mass and bone quality through its effects on osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and osteocytes. TGFβ signaling is also essential for the mechanosensitive formation of new bone. However, the mechanosensitive mechanisms c

High prevalence of hip and groin problems in professional ice hockey players, regardless of playing position

Purpose The prevalence of hip and groin problems in professional male ice hockey is unknown and suspected to differ between playing positions. The purpose of this study was to explore potential differences in the seasonal prevalence of hip and groin problems between playing positions in male elite ice hockey players and to explore the relationship between symptom duration and hip and groin functi

The Spatial Experience of the Sky in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights

Discussions of the sky in the Brontës’ works have tended to limit themselves to the weather, making Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights seem very similar to one another in this regard. If, however, attention instead turns to the sky as a spatial phenomenon, there is a considerable difference between the two novels, symptomatic of a greater difference in the possibility of personal freedom. Thus, while

Membrane processes and applications for biorefineries

The chapter provides an overview of membrane applications in conventional and lignocellulosic biorefineries. Driven by the trend towards “white biotechnology” the market and applications for membrane processes in biorefineries are growing rapidly since membrane processes have been identified as energy-efficient and highly selective separation processes in the different stages of biorefining. The a

An optical power limiting and ultrafast photophysics investigation of a series of multi-branched heavy atom substituted fluorene molecules

A common molecular design paradigm for optical power limiting (OPL) applications is to introduce heavy atoms that promote intersystem crossing and triplet excited states. In order to investigate this effect, three multi-branched fluorene molecules were prepared where the central moiety was either an organic benzene unit, para-dibromobenzene, or a platinum(II)-alkynyl unit. All three molecules show

Breathlessness, Anxiety, Depression, and Function–The BAD-F Study : A Cross-Sectional and Population Prevalence Study in Adults

Context: Breathlessness is associated with depression, but its relationship to anxiety or impaired function is less clear. Objectives: This study evaluated associations between chronic breathlessness and anxiety, depression, and functional status in the general population. Methods: This cross-sectional study of consenting adults (18 years and older) used an online survey. Quota sampling (n = 3000)

Inhibition of the epidermal growth factor receptor in bladder cancer cells treated with the DNA-damaging drug etoposide markedly increases apoptosis

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) on the induction of apoptosis by the chemotherapeutic agent etoposide (VP16), and to examine the effect of combining VP16 with gefitinib to see if the cell-survival mechanism can be prevented.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The bladder cancer cell lines RT4 and T24, representing low- and high-malignancy grades respectively,

Starkt stöd för obligatorisk barnvaccination

Återkommande utbrott av mässling i Europa och Nordamerika har väckt frågan omobligatoriska vaccinationsprogram till liv både i Sverige och i andra delar av världen. I detta kapitel redovisas unika resultat från 2018 års nationella SOM-undersökning, som visar hur stödet för obligatorisk barnvaccination skiljer sig åt mellan olika samhällsgrupper i Sverige. Analysen visar att det finns ett stort stö

Sweden’s engagement in global health : a historical review

Background: Sweden is a long-standing and significant contributor to overseas development aid. This commitment to global health and development is part of Sverigebilden, or the view of Sweden in the world that is formally promoted by the Swedish government. Sweden is seen by many in the global health community as leader on human rights and health and has traditionally been one of the most engaged

New modifications of Swedish ROP guidelines based on 10-year data from the SWEDROP register

Background/aims: During the last decade, improved neonatal care has resulted in increased survival of the most immature infants and improved health of more mature infants. We hypothesise that this has affected incidence and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), enabling guidelines for screening to be modified. Methods: In Sweden, all infants with gestational age (GA) at birth ≤30 weeks ar

Optimal Content Retrieval Latency for Chunk Based Cooperative Content Replication in Delay Tolerant Networks

Modern content distribution networks face an increasing multitude of content generators. In order to reach the minimal content retrieval latency in the content distribution networks, content shall be disseminated towards consumers based on its popularity taken from the content distribution networks. This, Combined with dividing media into chunks (heterogeneous valuation of information) and contact

Towards real-time ADMM for linear MPC

We present a novel predictive control scheme for linear constrained systems that uses the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for online optimization. In contrast to existing works on ADMM-based model predictive control (MPC), we only consider a single ADMM-iteration in every time step. The resulting real-time ADMM scheme is tailored for embedded and fast MPC implementations. The ma

Exploring causality of the association between smoking and Parkinson's disease

BACKGROUND: The aim of this paper is to investigate the causality of the inverse association between cigarette smoking and Parkinson's disease (PD). The main suggested alternatives include a delaying effect of smoking, reverse causality or an unmeasured confounding related to a low-risk-taking personality trait. METHODS: A total of 715 incident PD cases were ascertained in a cohort of 220 494 indi

Moisture safety of wooden buildings – design, construction and operation

During the last decade, building in wood has increased, mainly due to environmental awareness and targets to decrease the carbon footprint originated from the production of building materials. New technologies such as CLT (cross laminated timber) have accelerated the construction of multi-story wooden buildings. The CLT structure has been used both for housing and offices. Due to the extensive siz