Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a serious complication of diabetes, where skin biopsy assessing intraepidermal nerve fiber density (IENFD) plays an important diagnostic role. In vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) of the corneal subbasal nerve plexus has been proposed as a noninvasive diagnostic modality for DPN. Direct comparisons of skin biopsy and IVCM in controlled cohorts are lacking, as

The purpose of this thesis was to analyze how disinformation narrative techniques are applied by actors during an organizational crisis to construct a narrative about Sweden. To achieve this goal, a qualitative content analysis method has been utilized on Twitter posts. By applying disinformation narrative techniques, the study examined which narrative techniques were used to link a public organiz

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How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the prior tournament is unfair, i.e., a loss i

A garden is populated by n bamboos, each with its own daily growth rate. The Bamboo Garden Trimming Problem (BGT) is to design for a robotic gardener a perpetual schedule of cutting bamboos to keep the elevation of the garden as low as possible. The frequency of cutting is constraint by the time needed to move from one bamboo to the next, which is one day in Discrete BGT and is defined by the dist

Cracking the Code: Why Cancer Cells Struggle to Transform into Antigen-Presenting Dendritic Cells Since cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, the possibility of converting cancer cells into other cell types represents an interesting approach to fighting cancer. Transforming cancer cells into immune cells by reprogramming their cell identity into immune cells could be a smart way

Bakgrund: Allt färre uppnår gränsen för den rekommenderade dosen av fysisk aktivitet per vecka och detta gäller för alla åldrar då utveckling av det moderna samhället har lett till ett mer och mer stillasittande liv. Ett effektivt sätt att bekämpa stillasittande är att introducera regelbundna rörelsepauser. Att skapa en vana av minskat stillasittande under utbildningen kan förändra det efterkomman

People in Sweden who commit at least one crime and suffer from a severe mental disorder can be sentenced to forensic psychiatric care. The aim of this study was to describe and gain a greater understanding of the female patients' experiences of their life situation while being cared for in forensic psychiatric care. Interviews with 15 women were conducted and analyzed with a phenomenological herme

Background: Temperament and character have been shown to be important factors in understanding psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorder. Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have repeatedly been shown to have a distinct temperament and character, but this has not been evaluated in relation to psychiatric comorbidity and ASD diagnostic stability. Aims: To examine temperament and character

This paper explores whether the experience of a severe recession during early adulthood shapes individuals’ prosocial attitudes. The analysis uses survey responses to experimentally validated questions that measure prosocial attitudes for approximately 65,000 respondents in 75 countries. The identification approach exploits variation in recession experiences across 78 different birth cohorts. We f

The book of Job is famous for the problem of Theodicy and the question why an almighty and good God allows the evil in the world. The uniqueness of this ”enormous psalm” lies in the confrontation between two concepts of God. Job seems to talk about the God of victims and the God of persecutors. Jobs ”friends” are in fact his persecutors. Through mimetic rivalry Job has an united mass against him a

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been shown to be strongly associated with increased risk for venous thromboembolism events (VTE) mainly in the inpatient but also in the outpatient setting. Pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis has been shown to offer significant benefits in terms of reducing not only VTE events but also mortality, especially in acutely ill patients with COVID-19. Although the m

Ensuring functional safety is a critical challenge for autonomous robots, as they must operate reliably and predictably despite uncertainty. However, existing safety measures can over-constrain the system, limiting the robot’s availability to perform its assigned task. To address this problem, we propose a more flexible strategy that equips robots with theability to adapt to system failures and re

Titel: Livskvalitet till livets slut - En kvalitativ intervjustudie om fysioterapeuters erfarenheter av att arbeta livskvalitetsfrämjande i den palliativa vården Bakgrund: Varje år avlider 90 000 personer i Sverige och av dessa bedöms 80 procent vara i behov av palliativ vård. Inom den palliativa vården utgår man från en helhetssyn på människan, såväl fysiskt som psykiskt, socialt och existentiell

Menstruationscykeln (MC) är en komplex process som är individuell för varje kvinna. UnderMC fluktuerar nivåerna av könshormoner i kroppen, vilket kan påverka kroppens fysiologiska funktioner och prestationsförmågan vid träning. Tidigare studier på idrottare har visat en upplevd skillnad i prestationsförmåga, beroende på fas i MC. MC-relaterade besvär är vanligtförekommande och är en annan faktor s

Syfte: Att undersöka hur personer med icke-artrosrelaterad långvarig höft- och ljumsksmärta upplevde sökandet och mottagandet av vård för sina besvär. Metod: Åtta personer med långvarig (> 3 månader) höft- och ljumsksmärta som inte var relaterad till artros intervjuades. Deltagarna rekryterades från Ortopedmottagningen, Skånes universitetssjukhus eller en idrottsfysioterapiklinik i Skåne och hade

Bakgrund: Handboll är en skadedrabbad idrott där majoriteten av alla skador kan lokaliseras till nedre extremiteten. Knän och anklar är de mest skadedrabbade områdena, vilka främst drabbas av skador på ligamentära strukturer. Riskfaktorer för skada är till exempel tidigare skador, oro/ångest och en hög träningsbelastning. Syfte: Syftet var att kartlägga och jämföra förekomsten av skador i nedre e