Selenium has been suggested to be protective regarding breast cancer risk but no overall effect has been established. Genetics may modify the effect. This study compares the effect of selenium exposure on breast cancer risk between women with different alleles in single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The Malmö Cancer and Diet Study, a cohort including 17,035 women and >25 years of follow-up on b

När skottskogsbruket/stubbskottsängsbruket upphörde i början av 1800-talet försvann även landskapet som humlesugan, Betonica officinalis L., var anpassad till. Från att ha varit allmän på sydvästra Lolland och i västra Mellanskåne blev den mycket sällsynt inom dessa kärnområden i humlesugans tidigare utbred- ning i Skandinavien. Ändå lyckades den överleva på sju lokaler. För att bevara dessa krävsWhen coppice forestry and the use of wooded meadows ceased in the early 19th century, the landscape to which Betony, Betonica officinalis L., was adapted also disappeared. From being common in southwestern Lolland and in western Mid­Skåne, it became very rare in these core areas of Betony’s earlier distribution in Scandi­ navia. However, the species has managed to survive at seven localities and t

Background: Essential proteins play an important role in the process of life, which can be identified by experimental methods and computational approaches. Experimental approaches to identify essential proteins are of high accuracy but with the limitation of time and resource-consuming. Objective: Herein, we present a computational model (PEPRF) to identify essential proteins based on machine lear

Heatwaves exert disproportionately strong and sometimes irreversible impacts on forest ecosystems. These impacts remain poorly understood at the tree and species level and across large spatial scales. Here, we investigate the effects of the record-breaking 2018 European heatwave on tree growth and tree water status using a collection of high-temporal resolution dendrometer data from 21 species acr

Transport energy conservation research in urban transport systems dates back principally to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) “Arab Oil Embargo” (1973–1974) and the Iranian revolution (1979), when global oil supplies became threatened and costs rose steeply. Two subsequent Gulf Wars (1991 and 2003) highlighted the dangerous geo-political dimensions of Middle-Eastern oil

Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations towards sustainability. Drawing on an integrative review of scholarly literature from 2011 to early 2021 on sustainability transfo

As commercial dried herbs are of lower quality than fresh herbs, it is of key importance to understand the effect of pre-drying treatments and drying techniques on the quality of the dried product. Several technologies are reviewed, focusing on their effects on aroma and color, with the goal of providing an overview of various technological strategies developed for improving the quality of aromati

Rapidly increasing urbanisation is one of the most significant anthropogenic environmental changes which can affect demographic traits of animal populations, for example resulting in reduced reproductive success. The food limitation hypothesis suggests that the shortage of high-quality nestling food in cities is a major factor responsible for the reduced reproductive performance in insectivorous b

Many iterative optimization algorithms involve compositions of special cases of Lipschitz continuous operators, namely firmly nonexpansive, averaged, and nonexpansive operators. The structure and properties of the compositions are of particular importance in the proofs of convergence of such algorithms. In this paper, we systematically study the compositions of further special cases of Lipschitz c

Background and aims: Skin autofluorescence (AF), a measure of tissue accumulation of advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs), has been associated with diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, the association of skinAF with subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in the general population is largely unknown. Our study aimed toexamine the associations between skin AF and subclinical atherosclerosis

Background: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) are systemic inflammatory diseases that primarily affect elderly women. Objectives: To compare the risk of thromboembolic events and retinal vascular occlusions in GCA and/or PMR with that in osteoarthritis (OA), evaluating a veteran-based population. Methods: A total of 1535 patients with GCA, 10,265 with PMR, and 1203 with o

Background: The recurrence rate of atrial fibrillation (AF) in horses after cardioversion to sinus rhythm (SR) is relatively high. Atrial fibrillatory rate (AFR) derived from surface ECG is considered a biomarker for electrical remodelling and could potentially be used for the prediction of successful AF cardioversion and AF recurrence. Objectives: Evaluate if AFR was associated with successful tr