Background: The Serious Illness Care Program has been shown to improve quality and feasibility of value-based end-of-life conversations in primary care. Objectives: To elicit patients' perspectives on serious illness conversations conducted by primary care clinicians. Subjects and Methods: Telephone interviews were conducted with patients at an academic center in the United States, who had a recen

Bifidobakterier för bättre hälsa Bifidobakterier ingår i en familj av bakterier som kallas för mjölksyrabakterier. Många av dessa bakterier har en Y-form, därav namnet ”bifid” som betyder ”tvådelad”. Bifidobakterierna återfinns ofta i mag-tarmkanalen hos framförallt spädbarn. Dessa bakterier är fördelaktiga för den generella hälsan och kan påverka utvecklingen av bland annat immunsystemet och hjä

This is the fifth article in the psychological elements of palliative care series. This series focuses on how key concepts from psychotherapy can be used in the context of palliative care to improve communication and fine tune palliative care interventions. In this article, we discuss attachment - the system by which people form bonds in relationships. The different styles that people have in navi

This paper presents a diffractive dialogue between ethnographic accounts of imagery, digital or computational imaging, and art and archaeology practices. It develops the notion of images in the making in the context of the digital domain, to discuss what an image is and can be today. It focuses on two digital imaging techniques developed within archaeology and cultural heritage – reflectance trans

Wood and wood-based materials are common materials used in buildings, both in- and outdoors. However, wood is vulnerable to water and moisture which is why it is essential to keep it dry and prevent moisture from getting into the wood. Thus, there are multiple methods to protect the wood against moisture, such as using paint, oil, impregnation, or different metal profiles. Fasteners penetrating wo

Maternal boost early in life alter rotavirus specific immune response on infants The first period of life for infants goes through by depending on their mother’s antibody transfer, primarily because of the infant’s immune system is still under development while being exposed to pathogens. Maternal antibody transfer is achieved through placenta during pregnancy and continues past birth through bre

Sweden has an ambitious plan to fully decarbonise district heating by 2030 and to contribute with negative emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050. The vagaries of the energy market associated with climate, political, and social changes entail cross-sectoral integration that can fulfill these national targets. Fifth-generation district heating and cooling (5GDHC) is a relatively new concept of distr

The discovery of ferroelectricity in CMOS-compatible oxides, such as doped hafnium oxide, has opened new possibilities for electronics by reviving the use of ferroelectric implementations on modern technology platforms. This thesis presents the ground-up integration of ferroelectric HfO2 on a thermally sensitive III-V nanowire platform leading to the successful implementation of ferroelectric tran

Flank wear VBmax remains one of the most essential and used metrics for measuring tool wear. VBmax is used to characterize tool wear rate, machinability of materials, the quality of machined surface. While VBmax measures the size of wear scar, the shape of the tool wear remains less used but not the least applicable for such characterization. However, quantification of the wear shape requires a mo

Developing a new tool for the study of human brain development “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t” physicist Emerson Pugh once said. Nevertheless, despite its complexity, researchers are trying to figure out one of the human body's most vital organs. Understanding the development of the brain is crucial to understanding how i

Bark beetle attacks have led to widespread tree disturbance and deaths in many parts of the world, and thereby also economic and biodiversity losses. Forest-rich Sweden has experienced periodic attacks, latest in 2018. There is a great interest in identifying the most important explanatory features behind bark beetle attacks and making spatial predictions on where attacks might happen. This could

This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches. Reassessing the representational paradigm of archaeological image analysis, it argues for the importance of ontology, redefining images as material processes or events that draw together differing aspects of the world. The book is divided into three sections: 'Emergent images', which focuses on practices of